The license is the biggest crippling factor with Linux. It makes any sort of sharing of the source code with permissive projects or commercial involvement tedio

The license is the biggest crippling factor with Linux. It makes any sort of sharing of the source code with permissive projects or commercial involvement tedious. It's a hackers dream, if you're in college and you want all code to be available for you. But when you get in the real world - you realize your time spent programming is more valuable. Maybe you don't want to grant the world the rights to your creativity. Maybe the GPL can be credited for the success of the kernel's evolving. But there is little evidence that GPL brings serious players in - commercially - GPL wasn't invented by economists - it was invented by an academic. I'm surprised to see Valve using Linux and not BSD. BSD is even simpler from a developer stand point. I love debian - but as I get more serious about my skills - my investment is going full boar into permissive tools.d I'm free to borrow code from these projects 10, 20 years down the line for use at work, to add value, no questions asked.