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“When I think about technology companies that are major backers
of the open source movement, I tend to think about Google and
IBM.“The two companies publicly support open source efforts and both
have built products that take advantage of open source software.
Yet Google and IBM tend to prefer open source licenses other than
GPL.“Why is that…?”
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