Where to even begin. First of all, plan 9 is already under a BSD style license, it always has been. They just also let people have it with extra restrictions now (the GPL) because RMS is a lunatic and insists that some licenses are not GPL compatible because they contain a clause he thinks would make it a contract. Despite the obvious fact that the GPL is legally a contract whether he likes it or not.
>Every time I look at Android phone or TV or a router I regret that BSD/MIT/Apache is so popular
Android is built on the linux kernel, which is GPL. You are proving yourself wrong with that example.
> And users can't do anything about that.
Of course they can. If they do not want that, they can choose not to purchase it. It isn't rocket science. You are simply upset because actual users are proving you wrong, and showing that they don't give a shit about things being GPL. Your "but think of the users" histrionics are so transparently fake it is insulting everyone's intelligence to continue repeating it.
Proprietary software would still exist without free software. People who write software can do whatever they like with it, and it is incredibly self-absorbed and arrogant to suggest that giving away something they made is a problem because it violates your arbitrary belief system.
Such horrible hatred in your post. What in the world has caused you to become like that?
Did someone offer you software, with no cost attached, and promises that you can modify and share it, and then it was not enough? You wanted to also have the right to threaten your users with lawsuits if they in turn did the same thing as you just did to the program?
>Every time I look at Android phone or TV or a router I regret that BSD/MIT/Apache is so popular
Android is built on the linux kernel, which is GPL. You are proving yourself wrong with that example.
> And users can't do anything about that.
Of course they can. If they do not want that, they can choose not to purchase it. It isn't rocket science. You are simply upset because actual users are proving you wrong, and showing that they don't give a shit about things being GPL. Your "but think of the users" histrionics are so transparently fake it is insulting everyone's intelligence to continue repeating it.
Proprietary software would still exist without free software. People who write software can do whatever they like with it, and it is incredibly self-absorbed and arrogant to suggest that giving away something they made is a problem because it violates your arbitrary belief system.