That has nothing to do with what I&#x27;ve said, and I don&#x27;t think you understand what <i>capital</i> is. The GPL is fundamentally incompatible with the notion of software as a capital asset; when its value as a salable object is effectively zero due to the ease of marginal duplication, one&#x27;s business model becomes a labor-oriented one, i.e. consulting. Which means burning one&#x27;s time, which is what one acquires capital assets <i>to avoid doing</i>.<p>But, clearly, I&#x27;m <i>so</i> misinformed. I obviously haven&#x27;t thought this through. I didn&#x27;t read everything Stallman wrote a decade ago. And I certainly haven&#x27;t read the GPL (both v2 and v3) line-by-line to understand its ramifications.<p>It&#x27;s a pity you felt like you needed to be an asshole about this.