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Because as long as you can do one, you have no reason to do the other if you are not philosophically inclined to. They are absolutely at odds with each other.


> if you are not philosophically inclined to

You can be pushed by shareholders/public opinion, in the same way they get pushed to be environmentally or privacy conscious


It's naive to think that a push by environmental/conscious reasons is as strong as one by the money.


Ironic given the original reason that GNU exists is not monetary.


Why is this ironic? It just proves my point: how large is GNU and how large is Apple?




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