A brief comment on software licensing
I understand that people don't like the license.
I understand that the extra helping of sanctimoniousness that the license comes with is offensive to pretty much everyone who didn't go back for their second cup of flavor-aid.
But the GPL is not Communism. It's just another software license, and if you don't like the terms of the stupid thing you can simply use code that is released under a different license.
Sheesh. It's just software, and there's nothing that's been released under the GPL (with, possibly, the exception of the FSF's implementation of grep) that you can't either find elsewhere or write yourself. And if it's too hard to write the code yourself, you can either (a) pay someone to write it for you, or (b) agree to the terms of the GPL. Either way you're paying someone to provide software that you want to use, and in either case it's petty to then whine about a non-free license being MEEEAAAN TOOOO YOOOUUU.
(full disclosure: I don't really like the GPL. I'd rather release my free software under a license that requires that I be credited for my work. But I really don't like the creepy libertarian "I WANT MY FREE LUNCH!" whines about Communism.)