It's frustrating that in every software licensing thread on HN people utterly miss the point of the GPL. It's not there for developers, or businesses, it's ther

It's frustrating that in every software licensing thread on HN people utterly miss the point of the GPL. It's not there for developers, or businesses, it's there for users. GPL protects users' freedoms. Like the freedom to use it however they like (no 90-page EULA), the freedom to actually know what's running on their computer, freedom to change it and share changes. But what is most annoying here is TFA doesn't really talk about this either. Protecting users is another factor when weighing up GPL enforcement strategies. If you put GPL code in a pacemaker that millions of people have, there's a very strong argument to ensure users of that can inspect the source.