Why the GPL is garbage…


#1 reason, and the only reason I need, you can’t make a lot of money by putting all your software under the GPL. You can’t really sell your software if it’s under GPL, because anyone can set up a torrent for everyone to download, and it’s perfectly legal. Sure you could sell support like Red Hat does, but you won’t make that much when people can just go use a forum and get free support. You could also sell t-shirts of your logo like Firefox does, but that still doesn’t make you that much money. Let’s look at some big-name companies: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle. They don’t have all their software under the GPL, but they have few, but there big money makers are proprietary software.