Picking a license

[Paul Rubin]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> writes:
> It's certainly true 
> that an MIT licence will allow you to maximise the number of people who 
> will use your software, but maximising the number of users is not the 
> only motive for writing software.

I'd say proprietary licenses where you spend billions on marketing and
lobbying get you the most users.  Windows has orders of magnitude more
users than either Linux or BSD.  FOSS under any license isn't about
maximizing users.