Competition with proprietary software encourages open source developers to respond to users’ needs. Open source developer with pragmatic motivations will prefer the BSD, while those with ideological motivations will prefer the GPL. Copycat OS software is unlikely to be compatible with proprietary software, but more likely to have user interfaces than innovative OS software.
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