And all it took was forcing one company to divulge its proprietary closed-source codebase because they screwed up and incorporated copyleft code deep into their core.

Imagine how much progress could be made if a few other companies were forced to crack open their proprietary closed-source codebases...

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bobmcnamara 3 days ago | parent [-]

I think many companies saw that and poopood GPL firmware.

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shadowgovt 3 days ago | parent [-]

They were poopooing that before the OpenWRT case. I don't think there's evidence to suggest that the OpenWRT case made them less willing to use GPL (especially since use of GPL would always have implied they should open-source the firmware derived from it).

	▲	bobmcnamara 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Until then, some companies didn't seem to take it too seriously.