Comment by teddyh

> GPL usage has collapsed from 72% in 2009 to just 15% in 2024—a 57 percentage point freefall. Meanwhile, permissive licenses (MIT, Apache, BSD) that enable corporate appropriation without reciprocal obligations have surged from 28% to 85% over the same period.

No source is given for these questionable statistics. It makes me suspect that the entire point of the article is to make people unquestionably accept the statement that GPL usage “has collapsed”. It also speaks about Stallman exclusively in the past tense.