First comment in that article: (from Michael Tiemann, VP Open Source Affairs, Red Hat) As a person who started the world's first company based on supporting,

First comment in that article: (from Michael Tiemann, VP Open Source Affairs, Red Hat) As a person who started the world's first company based on supporting, developing, and maintaining GPL-licensed software (Cygnus Support, 1989), and now a VP at Red Hat, I respectfully submit that you don't really understand the GPL, APIs, nor the fundamental premise of Open Source Software (both as a legal construct and as a short-hand for the business models that it enables). To paraphrase Wolfgang Pauli, "Your arguments are not right. They are not even wrong."