I feel like you&#x27;re missing the point of the GNU GPL. The original idea behind the FSFs idea of open source was an ecosystem where every new development resulted in more open and free code. We&#x27;re talking about people who truly believed in getting away from commercial software entirely. There were people who felt that one day, Linux desktops could replace Windows and even high end tools like Photoshop and Final Cut would have great open source replacements.<p>...but that never happened. Apple has tried to remove all GPL code from Mac OS. Where GPL code exists, it&#x27;s only GPLv2 (like Bash; using an ancient version).<p>Even though all these companies are embracing opens source, they&#x27;re embracing only permissive licenses. They&#x27;re open sourcing the underlying tech stack while keeping all their offerings closed. If you&#x27;re on Android, you are totally locked into Google services. I&#x27;ve met people who tried only using F-droid and running &quot;open source phones&quot; (minus the drivers of course). Their phones sucked. One of them switched back because she was tired of writing apps to do things she use to be able to do with the Play Store.<p>The dream of a GPL world where the software is free and you only pay for the hardware, is pretty much gone. We don&#x27;t have federated systems, and where we do, no one uses them (GNU Social, Miro, Diasporia).<p>This isn&#x27;t the open source world some of us envisioned back in the late 90s. I personally, will keep as much of my code under GNU GPL as I can.