I see it this way: by choosing BSD or MIT over GPL, you’re just protecting someone’s freedom to take your work and prevent people from using a continuation of it. They can still use it and change it, they just need to give their version to everyone, making even more tools available to everyone to use however they want. When it comes to science, too much is paywalled and restricted already. I wouldn’t want to let someone paywall any more stuff if I can help it.

Can you elaborate on the Guix thing?

For-profit will never be for you.

The way I see it, they could demand the same pay as 2 people so that their boss doesn’t have the hire 3 people.

Prime raise negotiation environment

That already exists, look up winlator. It’s just that the overhead is god awful.