What if we live in a universe that is of Type C, in which the market favors complicated combination of factors of which 'open source' is a very minor one, and market positioning with technical prowess of software is the major one, whereby software is opened or closed based on specific political circumstances, such that the timing and not the direction is important?
I'm sure you're capable of doing that analysis yourself, but in my opinion, the GPL wouldn't provide any more benefits to a Type C universe than it provides in a Type A or Type B universe.
