The Linux Foundation is made of a number of companies who are told to behave by the GPL. IMO, if it weren't for the GPL we would see very few of the contributi

The Linux Foundation is made of a number of companies who are told to behave by the GPL. IMO, if it weren't for the GPL we would see very few of the contributions made to Linux get handed back to the community. That it more or less runs everywhere is part of what makes it interesting (and was a major point of TFA.)