Such ports may not even be legal, depending on the combinations of licenses involved. Certainly developers who create software under BSD-type licenses know that their code could be sucked into proprietary systems from which they may never see improvements. But projects based on too much taking and not enough giving won't be able to sustain themselves for long. Maybe Bruce Perens, while on his quest to convince IBM and HP to help the open source community that in turn helps them, ought to make a stop at Apple in Cupertino. Let me know in the TalkBack below.
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