I believe that a BSD-style license is generally good (personally I even prefer the WTFPL). In an ideal world, we wouldn't need licenses because nobody would be stupid enough to make proprietary software[1] or otherwise try to restrict the user's freedoms. We'd pretty much have implicit CC-BY or -Zero for everything and be done with it.
For now, we need the GPL to force change. BSD-style does not slowly force the ever-stuck-in-the-past industry to stop making inferior unfree[2] software. It will not prevent the same people from leeching off the efforts of the FLOSS community without giving anything in return (or even trying to sabotage our efforts with patents or similar nonsense).
[1] Yes, proprietary software is and always was an enormously stupid idea, probably up there with patents and copyright on the list of Most Ridiculous Bullshit In Human History.
Your comment is a good one. People are downvoting not because you aren't contributing, but because they disagree with you and are trying to silence your opinion. They forget that upvotes should be used to encourage discussion, and down votes used to remove comments that don't contribute. Hopefully, posting here will highlight your comment so others will take note.
It might also be that "in an ideal world nobody would be stupid enough," "an enormously stupid idea" and "most ridiculous bullshit in human history" aren't really arguments, and thus not really further the conversation.
That ignores the rest of the comment. So yes, if you ignore the comment as a whole, and choose to pick out specific parts of the comment, you can claim the entire comment worthless. But I disagree with that approach. With that approach, you've essentially become no better than someone who down votes someone for making a spelling mistake.
In my mind there's a huge difference between spelling _mistakes_, and _purposefully_ setting up a negative and insulting tone. There's no need to ignore the rest of the comment, when you think the overall language will do more harm than good.
I can accept that you find the language used to make a point not that important, but you should consider that not everyone might agree with that.
For now, we need the GPL to force change. BSD-style does not slowly force the ever-stuck-in-the-past industry to stop making inferior unfree[2] software. It will not prevent the same people from leeching off the efforts of the FLOSS community without giving anything in return (or even trying to sabotage our efforts with patents or similar nonsense).
[1] Yes, proprietary software is and always was an enormously stupid idea, probably up there with patents and copyright on the list of Most Ridiculous Bullshit In Human History.
[2] Free as in Speech.