Thanks, that could be it, I suppose. But I don't understand why my comment would be considered that ridiculous. I've worked at a company where it was not forbi

Thanks, that could be it, I suppose. But I don't understand why my comment would be considered that ridiculous. I've worked at a company where it was not forbidden, but strongly frowned upon to use open source of any kind ("because we need to be able to keep someone accountable if the software breaks"). And on top of my mind I recall several stories by Patio11 where he talks about trying to get a piece of software in his days as salary man. And getting plain refused from his manager, because the software was way too cheap. Agreed, none of these examples are specifically about GPL, but they would very well cover the statement I responded to: "GPL code can be used anywhere". And just to be super clear: I wasn't trying to make a "cute" comment about a super extreme situation. I was merely trying to present a little more nuance to the statement given.