Zed's "colored history in the Ruby world" is not relevant to your discussion of BSD vs GPL licenses. It feels like you put it in just to stick it to those "awful" Ruby people.

Also, your response to my comment doesn't improve or change my opinion of the article. Without that part there, it would've been a perfectly acceptable advance of the discussion of the two license systems. As it is, it damages the your argument.

Bitter maybe too harsh a criticism, but since you've chosen to put the irrelevant paragraph that made a side-comment on the Ruby community in an article about OSS licenses, you've pretty much opened yourself up to it.