The term "viral license" is a really descriptive term ;)
My point is that i think that antirez has too much faith in humanity when it comes to business. A company selling software doesn't necessarily care about forks being inconvenient. A typical closed-source company only thinks in terms of money and thus potentially contributing to open-source also contributes to your competition.
I think more people are realising that "Open source was seen as more of a tool to manipulate the market and create favourable circumstances, rather than a goal in itself." http://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Open-source-is-just-a-... - Hence Android in order to fight Apple etc. It can help destroy your competitions market rather than helping them.
What a good observation! Commoditize the complements by dropping a free competitive software that any entity can use and modify. And they've also restricted modifications from other companies with the trademark, so they have control over that as well. It's quite brilliant.
My point is that i think that antirez has too much faith in humanity when it comes to business. A company selling software doesn't necessarily care about forks being inconvenient. A typical closed-source company only thinks in terms of money and thus potentially contributing to open-source also contributes to your competition.