Re: The problem is not Oracle (for once)
Ah but that is not a benefit.
No, it's a choice. The benefits or lack of are pretty subjective. (A BSD advocate would argue it's better to have access to a well tested TCP/IP stack that you can use rather than inventing the wheel again, for example).
Thus the GPL gives you the protection from nasty people taking advantage of you and removing your freedom.
No it doesn't.
If your source code and susiquent modifications to it being made available is important to you use the GPL, if they're not then use something else. For some people this is important, for others it isn't. But to assume someone who choses a different licence is wrong or stupid is fairly disengenuous.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
