To me, it's not a self-fulfilling prophecy so much as a hard lesson in pragmatism. Some people care very deeply about Free-as-in-FSF. Others like the idea in va

To me, it's not a self-fulfilling prophecy so much as a hard lesson in pragmatism. Some people care very deeply about Free-as-in-FSF. Others like the idea in vague terms, but don't assign much moral weight to it. I suspect that there's a tendency for the former group to project their feelings upon members of the latter. And that that, in turn, leads to some bewilderment when someone makes a blithely practical choice such as, "Among this range of licenses, all of which are perfectly acceptable to me, I'm going to just pick the one that I think will result in more people using the thing I made," or, "I'm going to just pick the one that's easiest for me to understand."