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Should we also get rid of all of GNU's hostile rewrites?

People seem to frequently forget that GNU was largely a GPL reimplementation of proprietary software.

Why would you prevent someone from writing whatever code they want, as long as it is FOSS? That's hypocritical, considering that doing whatever you want with the code is one of GNU's main tenets ("free as in freedom")

> Or prevent them from eradicating competing or even original projects by doing hostile rewrites or forks?

Wouldn't this directly contravene the findings in this case?