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> So yes, GPL 3 is hurting open source more than helping it.

Why is it bad for the FSF to prioritize their interests ahead of Apple and Microsoft's?

There's a strong willingness to adopt open source tools in every large company but GPL 3 is poisoning the well, and that's impeding universal adoption of the open source ecosystem. Sure FSF doesn't care, and that's unfortunate, because that stance is actually keeping proprietary enterprise software on life support. Unintended consequences I suppose.

GPL prevents DRM and patents. In what way is those two good for the open source ecosystem?

Let me release a open source driver for hardware that you can't modify, and if you distribute it I will sue you for patent infringement. Since I have now donated to the open source ecosystem, I expect money, time and rewards to be sent to me for this great deed.

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