> If a user hostile descision is made > I don't see what this has to do with BSD vs. GPL That is my point, license does not matter that much (and i meant the

> If a user hostile descision is made > I don't see what this has to do with BSD vs. GPL That is my point, license does not matter that much (and i meant the BSDs OSes). A license is not the only barrier of participation, you need to have the resources (time/money/expertise) too, and when you enter as a directly competing fork with marginal market share, you better have more resources than the parent project or otherwise your fork will not be able to keep up to with an adversarial company, trying to keep that jucy monopoly, they might have build ages ago with community contributions. Forking and maintaining a gigantic project is not really a practical option for angered hobbyists. The costs are too high or competition to harsh. IMO this is not only a problem of the GPL but of FOSS in general. Lets call it capitalistic capture.