> how GPL is a show-stopper at some companies where we are building proprietary solutions Is this not one of the the main purposes of the GPL? To prevent compa

> how GPL is a show-stopper at some companies where we are building proprietary solutions Is this not one of the the main purposes of the GPL? To prevent companies taking the users freedom by "building proprietary solutions". > It also fails to mention that sometimes providing the user with the best products means protecting the investment and creative effort painstakingly poured into development of a product. Nope it doesn't fail to mention this. Your opinion here is totally orthogonal to the original premise of the free software movement (and of the GPL). The GPL was written on the premise that users are better off with objectively worse performing software that maintain the four freedoms. You probably disagree with me on whether software freedom is more important than software quality but it is important to understand the basis of our disagreement first.