The Linux mob is perhaps one of the most annoying trends/fashions out there in the computing industry. They’re motivated more on most days by their hatred of Microsoft and less by technical excellence.
In Unix implementations, I highly prefer FreeBSD for this reason. You don’t see too many BSD fanatics spinning their wheels hating MSFT. They just roll code.
When I last worked in Silly Valley, there was an effort to use Linux as a basis for a product. I warned management that the Linux mob was motivated much more by left-wing anti-property ideals than technical excellence. I said (repeatedly) that the BSD licensing was far more in keeping with our goals as a company - to make money and NOT give our work away.
The young, unwashed and smelly Linux mob convinced management otherwise. Management always gets sucked in when they have a bunch of enthusiastic young twerps peddling something that is “free.” The old fart over in the corner gets dismissed as old and out of touch.
Management realized a couple years after I left that there were, indeed, trap doors in the Linux GPL. Turns out that the cranky old fart in the corner actually knew something about the favorite s/w of the twerps after all. Too late.
The marxist cant of the GPL crowd is what really annoys me about the Linux mob.
The GPL requires payment. The BSD does not. The payment is in a non-monetary form, but it is still a form of payment. That's all it is.
Wisdom and experience are no match for ignorance and exuberance !