In years past we had proprietary solutions and people protected their IP. Today, many solutions are open source based on some type of "copyleft" license while other models range from Freemium to partially protected software.
I think that GPL is the ultimate bait and switch strategy. Support costs money and has to come from somewhere - the community support models are not suitable for production systems unless the software is extremely stable or the systems aren't critical. People end up purchasing support which is the real cost of the software but are unable to protect any modifications that are done as an add on.
Why does the GPL insist on having all associated code in GPL? What are they afraid of in proprietary technology?
The freemium model is much better supported by other license agreements.
Sun's agreement seems like the best of many worlds offering great freemium model support, ecosystem support and protection for those who require it.
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