If anything, the open source movement (or the free software movement, tak your pick) would be much poorer for it, and see open source relegated to a library and

If anything, the open source movement (or the free software movement, tak your pick) would be much poorer for it, and see open source relegated to a library and infrastructure layer of the IT world. As is, with GPL at least there's a chance of having a vertically FOSS stack for hardware that's within most people's reach.