This long post has one simple solution: the GPLv3.
It is very contentious, but our tech-broligarcy would've been greatly subdued if more folks used this license instead of other "permissive" (read. Doormat) licenses.
This has been considered by the Linux community literally since the day Linus first announced his kernel on Usenet. The primary defense is the GPL and related licenses which legally protect against that kind of abuse by forcing derived works to also be opened under the same license.
This is why, as much as I support the general idea of uutils, I’m deeply suspicious the it is under a MIT license instead of the GPL.
and it should be v3 btw; v2 had some loopholes that some companies still benefit from to this day.
Large companies are already heavily involved in Linux. Based on this data some of the biggest contributors this year were Meta and Google. Both companies are at the forefront of enshitification of the internet, but they built their mountains of shit on a foundation of Linux.
I think at some point, big corporations like microsoft or google will try adding their crap to the repositorys and try to make them used by majority.
They've already done this in some obvious ways, but also the recent Rust Zealotry and the non-stop drive to penetrate the kernel code is concerning: Rust Foundation
Your question is somewhat confusing.
Most Linux distros have a policy against accepting nonfree software in their main repos. As long as that policy remains in place, what are you worried about? That Microsoft and Google will release things as free software? They are already doing that and that is a good thing.
And remember that free software doesn't have owners.
well, its not directly a question. more of an invitation for discussion about the topic since i wanted to hear what everyone here thinks about it.
The thing i'm worried is the embrace & extinguish strategy the corporations like microsoft use. So far there has been little reason for them to care, since linux has been so marginal operating system, but I think there is good chance linux might become really popular. Win11 is such a mess and combined with really expensive ram, it might not even be useable for many, so only other option is to either use apple or linux
Can't believe I need to keep stating this around here, but Linux is THE most deployed OS on the entire planet. It's not even close.
Whether it's used for Desktop or not is irrelevant.
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