Indeed Open Source also benefits Libre Software today. But do we really know what the ecosystem would be like today in a world where only Copyleft existed ?
Linux itself is GPL, so are some of the distributions. Hurd hasn't seen adoption, probably because the alternative is good enough.
Signal is still there, client and server. But maybe it wasn't needed because ejabberd, one of the biggest XMPP servers, was already there and powering all messenger platforms.
You're assuming that if developers didn't license under non-copyleft, they'd license under proprietary instead; there's no real reason to believe this. And as many examples have shown, many of the tools we use aren't actually made by billion-dollar companies but by single developers on their free time. The examples in the article show it, Werner Koch (the guy behind OpenPGP) has been asking for funding for years (decades ?). ssh, curl, ...
Anyway, that world is so different that we'll probably never know how it'll work, so here is the area where the optimism of people are visible and I myself believe Copyleft could have been a success.
Ah, sorry. I misunderstood you as talking about the problems of open source in general, but you were referring only to non-copyleft open source. In that case I think we agree.
Linux itself is GPL, so are some of the distributions. Hurd hasn't seen adoption, probably because the alternative is good enough. Signal is still there, client and server. But maybe it wasn't needed because ejabberd, one of the biggest XMPP servers, was already there and powering all messenger platforms.
You're assuming that if developers didn't license under non-copyleft, they'd license under proprietary instead; there's no real reason to believe this. And as many examples have shown, many of the tools we use aren't actually made by billion-dollar companies but by single developers on their free time. The examples in the article show it, Werner Koch (the guy behind OpenPGP) has been asking for funding for years (decades ?). ssh, curl, ...
Anyway, that world is so different that we'll probably never know how it'll work, so here is the area where the optimism of people are visible and I myself believe Copyleft could have been a success.