"The downside is that it's become so mainstream that it's beginning to hit up against big companies that think they can just ignore the details of the GPL licence, or that they can bully their way around it as they do elsewhere. As they will now learn, that isn't the case, and there's likely to be something of a transitional period where the big consumer electronic manufacturers digest the implications of this fact – learned, if necessary, the hard way in the courts - and begin to fulfil their obligations in return for the benefits they are beginning increasingly to appreciate." - Alexandre Gamela