Last night at OSCON I attended the lightning talks (here called "Ignite Talks"). Most of them were pretty good (I especially loved Emily Dunham's "First Impressions (the value of the 'noob')" talk), but the last talk of the night was titled "Why I don’t use the GPL" by Shane Curcuru, "VP of Brand Management at the Apache Software Foundation" [...].

It was a harsh talk. It was also the last talk of the night, and there was really no venue to respond to it (I looked to see if there would be future lightning talk slots at this conference, but there aren't). Though the only noise from the audience was applause, I know that doesn't mean everyone was happy, just polite... a number of my friends got up and left in the middle of the talk. But it needs a response... even if the only venue I have at the moment is my blog. That'll do.