It's not good until the world is completely free and it will be achieved no matter how much more work it takes - no matter how much it's decrypted it's "unrealistic".
People kept saying GNU couldn't be done for years, but it was done.
@david Most developers who consider themselves "open source" developers consider it "good" if their software becomes popular enough, even if it is turned proprietary and/or its license is infringed.
The proprietization of free software certainly isn't tolerated by free software developers.
@david No, nothing was stolen, as making a copy of software is not theft.
As far as I am aware, libogc was developed by *looking* at the nintendo *gamecube* SDK and then re-implementing such SDK with custom code (which is not clean-room reverse engineering, but even ninty does not care to pursue legal cases where they don't imagine that they're "losing sales").
When the Wii was released, libogc was ported to work with the Wii as well, with mostly custom code (although I guess the developers took a few peeks at the Wii SDK and the documentation, but who cares?).
If you don't have a free compiler, you cannot write a good kernel, or maybe even any kernel.
If you don't allow for a free editor, you cannot write a good kernel, or maybe even any kernel.
If you don't have a free make implementation, you cannot automate the kernel build process well.
If you don't have a free toolchain, binutils and libc and many other libraries, nobody can use such kernel.
Linux was originally released under a proprietary source-available license, although Linus didn't get very far, as why would GNU do most of the work for him?
Linux only started to succeed once it was re-licensed to the GPLv2-ambigious and GNU developers ported GNU to work with it, resulting in GNU/Linux.
Anyone who recites the confession of the faith; "There is no system but GNU and Linux is only one of its kernels." and lives a life of purity gains sainthood in the Church of Emacs.
The kernel, Linux is indeed proprietary software - yes, despite being the poster child of "open source", it isn't even completely (or even 50%) source-available!
Part of the Linux project is a massive collection of proprietary software derivative works that denies the users freedom known as "linux-firmware" (there are also a handful of free programs, with source code, under GPLv2-compatible terms).
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