Eric Raymond claims the GPL could harm the success of Open Source:
Eric S. Raymond told Federico Biancuzzi of the Italian Linux magazine Linux&C during the international forum for free software in Brazil that the General Public License could hinder the progress of Open Source.
What lies behind this is of course only his boundless stupidity and craving for attention and the constant inferiority complex towards Richard Stallman - because unlike Eric, Richard has a concept and a consistent idea. Regardless of how one stands on what Richard Stallman says - one must acknowledge that he has a line and pursues it clearly.
Eric Raymond, on the other hand, falls for cheers that he is a millionaire and other stupid remarks - and thereby threatens other open source people like Bruce Perens. And otherwise talks a lot of nonsense.
Abolishing the GPL would be a very stupid idea, because in many areas it is precisely the GPL that protects open source projects - just look at the current GPL violations. If the corresponding sources were under the BSD license, no one would care and the topic would be done - companies would simply help themselves cheaply and that would be it.
But Eric Raymond has never understood the difference between free software and free beer ...