>you're just made it even easier for corpos to have free pickings of any given tool on the internet to incorporate into their own tools

So? That's allowed, they should do whatever they want with that code. I've preferred most MIT/Apache stuff over GNU alternatives even for personal use.

>Obviously the community wouldn't even be here to begin with if it wasn't for Linux going with a GPLv2 license. Going forward, with everything becoming more MIT/BSD licensed, I wonder to see how the community/ecosystem will fare.

There are tons of projects with MIT/BSD/Apache and decades of community participation. Including *BSD and Apache server themselves...

Linux being GNU didn't help it becoming driven by big companies paying all the core developers...