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"but never to use in a commercial environment"

You must be kidding, right? I have 2700+ Linux boxes in our 4 data-centers and I am quite sure we are not playing with those machines. We also have a whole lot of GPL and GPL-ish software deployed on those servers (as well as BSD, Apache and MIT-ish stuff).

I am also pretty much sure our business depends on it.

So, would you please stop spreading this kind of FUD?

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>would you please stop spreading this kind of FUD?

And would you please stop using labels.

In the original article there is an arguments that GPL makes corporate clients reluctant to use the software. This may be inaccurate, but this is a fact of life.

We are talking about merits of MIT license vs GPL, not about proprietary vs. open source. On the last issue the debate has been closed some time ago, and open source won.

"This may be inaccurate, but this is a fact of life."

Please decide. Something can't be a fact of life and also be inaccurate.

Religious beliefs are inaccurate, but they are a fact of life.

Beliefs are beliefs, they may or may not be facts

And lies like the one you posted reinforce this inaccurate belief.

Well done.

Surely you aren't denying the existence of religious believers? I mean, I'm pretty sure I've met a few...