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Originally Posted by T_Frain_K
Thatīs exactly why GPL is considered a "viral" license.
Honestly, as a paying costumer I cannot understand how resources are beeing wasted to avoid such - to the majority of the world - irrelevant problems.
Then again, beeing a geek, I can...
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It might be boring behind-the-scenes stuff to a customer but it's not irrelevant.
Bookeen basically has two scenarios:
1) If they open source the whole thing someone might get the idea to buy the hardware cheap from a competitor and just use their FW. That might limit their financial possibilities.
2) If they keep their self-developed stuff closed source that might mean that they have to solve some things differently which could mean a whole range of problems: from annoying issues which are hard to fix due to design reasons to limitations of what they can implement altogether (of course there is a solution for everything in theory, but in practice it's "if it's too complicated and time consuming to do then skip it").
The decision for one or the other will always impact the customer in one way or the other...