At least part of his description matches my memories of the period in the 90s where a lot of open source developers were concerned about being able to use their

At least part of his description matches my memories of the period in the 90s where a lot of open source developers were concerned about being able to use their software at work. The GPL’s virality features prominently in that since there were some people warning businesses about possible broad disaster scenarios where they’d make a mistake and be forced to release their proprietary code.