And there's probably a million things you use every day which is GPL licenced. Bottom line is that both licences are in wide use while focused on different typ

And there's probably a million things you use every day which is GPL licenced. Bottom line is that both licences are in wide use while focused on different types of code, permissive licences (along with LGPL) are more targeted at framework/library code while GPL is more targeted at fully self-sustained solutions. They both have their respective strengths, and it's not as if you can't have professional software developers cooperating under the GPL, Linux is a prime example of that.