> So how exactly has the open source world lost out due to the existence of the BSD license? iOS (based on BSD Unix) is proprietary. Android (based on GPL Linu

> So how exactly has the open source world lost out due to the existence of the BSD license? iOS (based on BSD Unix) is proprietary. Android (based on GPL Linux) is open. iOS came first and seemed to be the huge winner. Then Google took GNU/Linux (GPL), built Android around it, and outpaced iOS by far. Now the BSD developers have to pay (!) for their own (!) developments when they buy idevices. They have no option to modify anything. They are just consumers. The Linux developers can take the code, tweak their devices (Cyanogenmod) and do a lot of other things with it. There is Android for x86 for instance. BSD is good for hardware producers. GPL is good for hardware consumers.