Recently, MS funded a study checking whether GPL programmers would want the GPL3 to police patents. eWeek had the following headline: “Study: Developers Do Not Want GPL 3 to Police Patents”. Of course, they got it wrong again. 1st, the study had a 11% response rate – not very representative one would say. 2nd, BSD-licensed software at Freshmeat make up 10% of projects hosted at that forge, while LGPL and GPL combined take 70%+. So I wonder which 11% the respondents came from? The following article explains why the overwhelming majority of programmers choose GPL.