Bullshit. Maybe Netscape was shareware, but nobody really thinks that's the same as "cost money".

Netscape Navigator was originally a boxed software product. I bought one once, to run on NT 3.51. Cost about $30.

When all you have is virtualization, all your markets look like... um, virtualization problems? (not very catchy, is it)

I suspect GP is objecting to the destruction of the 500 feet of earth that would be necessary to destroy the people underneath it.

He's not confusing anything. This story is about Nokia rewriting a GPL library and using the LGPL for the rewrite. His comment about software becoming progressively free-er is entirely relevant.