> The irony of the GPL hate, is that without GNU we would just be using the usual UNIX flavours, with everyone taking whatever they felt like from BSD, as it was happening before Linux came into play.
More like: a small part of the professional word would be using the usual UNIX flavours, and the rest of the World would use Windows both for desktop and for servers (add a tiny share of free BSDs here and there if you wish).
Indeed.
> I will give it two decades max, for everything to get back to the old way of selling software.
It would be nice to get back to Turbo Pascal-like and old Adobe business models, instead of the divide between subscriptions and free (as in beer) open source funded by a bigcorp making money from something else. So I'll take that.
I and others were there, with source available, PD, shareware, beerware, postware and whatever else was available as business friendly license.
I will give it two decades max, for everything to get back to the old way of selling software.