I agree GP's attitude is ridiculous, but if a very small number of purists on the internet is the reason less people are open sourcing software, then those peop

I agree GP's attitude is ridiculous, but if a very small number of purists on the internet is the reason less people are open sourcing software, then those people are just as guilty of bad reasoning/judgment as the purists. IMHO the real reason is that the threat of hostile/competing forks has gone up. It used to be gauche at best, evil at worst, to take somebody's open source code and compete with them, but increasingly the landscape is changing. I think that's the real problem, and IMHO the answer to that is the AGPL, not to go proprietary.