That's fair, but a more pervasive Free Software ecosystem might have possibly avoided this outcome entirely. And that failure is something we can lay directly at the feet of the FSF.
If RMS was going to piss off the entire industry with a new version of the GPL, the least he could do was close the network hole. What we got instead is a half measure that satisfies nobody.
More importantly, he completely missed the boat on App Stores. Why was there never any watered down version of copyleft that could be used as a wedge to try and pry open app stores over time? They did it for libraries with the LGPL, but apparently app stores werent worth specials casing.
If RMS was going to piss off the entire industry with a new version of the GPL, the least he could do was close the network hole. What we got instead is a half measure that satisfies nobody.
More importantly, he completely missed the boat on App Stores. Why was there never any watered down version of copyleft that could be used as a wedge to try and pry open app stores over time? They did it for libraries with the LGPL, but apparently app stores werent worth specials casing.