>Most companies will see a lawsuit as an attack, and blacklist interacting with you in the future if they can. It reflects badly on the FOSS community, and make

>Most companies will see a lawsuit as an attack, and blacklist interacting with you in the future if they can. It reflects badly on the FOSS community, and makes future interactions even more difficult. There are a lot of businesses that will fight relying on any FOSS product The companies that will strip out FOSS from all of their products will have to cripple their product, increase their lead times and increase their costs - possibly all three. If FOSS is competing with their closed source product, that makes FOSS more competitive. If companies that respect FOSS compete with their product, that makes them more competitive. These are good things. I don't think it pays to accommodate companies with laywers that behave irrationally in response to enforcement of the GPL and it certainly doesn't pay to respond to bully tactics by relenting.