Moglen: How Should the Free Software Movement View the Linux Foundation?

Eben Moglen opines onthe role of the Linux Foundation, and on GPL enforcement in general."LF will be as favorable to copyleft as its members are. Copyleftlicensing is easy for businesses to doubt: required sharing of work thatcould be instead 'owned' by the capital investors seems to be mere loss inconventional calculations. I have spent most of my adult lifetime nottelling businesses that copyleft was in their interest, but educating themabout copyleft and others' experience with it, in order to allow them todraw their own conclusions. Experience has taught me that this process,though uncertain and unscalable, is absolutely crucial to the attainment ofthe free software movement's fundamental objectives. It is, however, alltoo easily destroyed by any form of overly aggressive copyleft enforcementthat fully confirms businesspeople's skepticism."