[seanmcdirmid]

Citation needed on how the open source software industry is so much larger (money wise) than the closed source software industry. I'm sure its much more of a mix, plus closed source software is more often sold, meaning more money is involved in say oracle DB vs. MySQL. Also, most of the OSS industry prefers apache/BSD style licenses that aren't viral.

If RMS was true to his principles, he would make GPL more viral to cover every deployment and co-deployment. But they leave this huge server hole instead. That is what I mean by arbitrary. Why a hole there and not elsewhere?

[josephlord]

I don't say anything of the sort. Please read again. I am saying that total global commerce and use of computers is greater than the software industry (not the world's greatest insight I know).

Don't want to answer for RMS. I can't think of less arbitrary way of achieving their aims.

[sedachv]

RMS didn't foresee the server hole. That's why GNU came out with the Affero GPL in 2007: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html