Business will get along just fine without mods to software they use on their own machines, without using the feature of source availability. Just lke they do now.
Further, I do in house scripting and user hooks to a proprietary app. My ox is not gored by GPL3. I have no personal stake. True, I would love it if there was a usable insurance/reinsurance app released under the GPL. But it ain't likely in the near future, bubbi.
What I worry about, what I am disappointed in, is that OS/GPL software won't be taken up more widely because of this thing. Developer demand (in house) will not be affected by uptake of GPLed software. It will hinder what could have been a glorious renaissance for our trade. Perhaps it won't kill it entirely, maybe it will.
Say what you like, GPLed software will be less attractive to businesses - after all most work is done in these businesses. It's targeted against business, NOT because the software is being changed and released without publishing the changes (it's not beiing distributed after all), but BECAUSE companies making changes turn profits.
So, go ahead and say it, just like the rest. YOu beleve that using the binaries is the same thing as distributing them.
Go ahead and say it. Brett Glass was right all along. I won't agree, but that's what everyone here has been saying.