[anamax]

> My point was perhaps unclear, but I think ESR has a philosophical problem with the idea of a society governed by an ethos of mutual responsibility and obligations.

Whether or not your point is unclear or incorrect, it's pretty much irrelevant to whether ESR is correct about GPL.

Reminder: good people aren't necessarily correct on a given point and bad people aren't necessarily wrong on a given point. In fact, good/bad is pretty much uncorrelated with correct/wrong.