I'm gonna go way out on a limb here and guess that the author wasn't a fan of the GPL to begin with, and is hitching his wagon to the FSF news cycle.

I dislike RMS' opinions, therefore.. the GPL is dead? A little bit of a leap there buddy.

Cloud providers profiting from free software is an important issue, but it is largely orthogonal to the continuing need to protect free works in numerous traditional use cases

This doesn't make sense.

1. The GPL doesn't do enough against current problems.

2. So the solution in the license area is to go to licenses that do even LESS against current problems.

3. Magic regulation will fix all problems.

Yeah he totally misses the point of Free/Libre Software, instead makes it about the big bad boogeyman RMS as the catalyst to dump the Four Freedoms.

Counter-example to his notion that GPL hasn't been successful: Linux.

Software Liberty is about protecting users, not developers. Recommending people switch to MIT totally misses the point, so being charitable the author is ignorant about the subject.

It's kind of illogical to say that the GPL doesn't protect enough against cloud services, and to bemoan that the GPL does not enforce good Open Source citizenship, and then… advocate for MIT-style licenses.

Those licenses don't do anything for most of the "problems" he raises.