Perhaps you have a legitimate point. But perhaps you've forgotten three key points.
First: How many Linux distributions simply reuse existing BSD software? Remember, Linux is the kernel and a _lot_ code in Linux distributions came from McKusick's, Bostic's and other BSD developers' work.
Second: I charge anyone to provide evidence that the nature of the GPL license in comparison to the BSD license actually contributes to the number of users actually using either operating system. Merely arguing for the existance of said relationship is highly speculative as I believe the vast majority of users are hardly enlightened enough to be knowledgable about license.
Third: It may be that if some the incompatibilities in licensing models (as discussed by the author of the original document) didn't exist, Linux wouldn't have such an inferior IP stack.
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I think you meant:
X Window System is a trademark of X Consortium, Inc.
Not X-Windows.
First: How many Linux distributions simply reuse existing BSD software? Remember, Linux is the kernel and a _lot_ code in Linux distributions came from McKusick's, Bostic's and other BSD developers' work.
Second: I charge anyone to provide evidence that the nature of the GPL license in comparison to the BSD license actually contributes to the number of users actually using either operating system. Merely arguing for the existance of said relationship is highly speculative as I believe the vast majority of users are hardly enlightened enough to be knowledgable about license.
Third: It may be that if some the incompatibilities in licensing models (as discussed by the author of the original document) didn't exist, Linux wouldn't have such an inferior IP stack.