Why does this forum always attract replies like this?

Replies like what, exactly? You seem to be complaining that someone has disagreed with you but disagreement is hardly unique to "this forum."

Do you seriously recommend a novice should go through all the licenses at opensource.org, read them all, and with their infinite legal knowledge, choose the one they like best?

I would recommend a novice go through at least some of the licenses at opensource.org and choose one that seems compatible with his philosophy.I think most would agree that making an educated decision is a wiser approach than blindly following the advice found in an anonymous post on a web site.

Or go with the main choice that's the core of the free software movement today?

The "main" or most popular choice isn't necessarily the best. If it was, we could reason that McDonalds makes the best burgers in the world. Or Microsoft, the best OS.

There's a reason Linux, GCC, and other such projects continue to grow the way they do and it has everything to do with their license.

Oh? I would think it has something to do with the dedication and skill of the people involved rather than the license. If it really has everything to do with the license, then how do you explain the success of BerkeleyDB, BIND, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mozilla, NetBSD Postfix, PostgreSQL, Python, Sendmail, the X Window System and countless other projects from Apache to Zlib that aren't distributed under the GPL?

Placing this aside, there's no reason to pollute a simple thread with such complications.

If you want dumbed-down threads you might consider looking elsewhere.

As for suggesting that learning shouldn't be just about what one finds interesting and using one-liners to learn - I'll leave those as they are and hope I never run into any of your code.

You have nothing to worry about because, on the assumption that your logic errors aren't restricted to this thread, I'd never let you anywhere near my code anyway. ;-)

¹ don't bother replying that not everyone reading this is a novice.

Okay, I'll leave that salient point out of the discussion at your request.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";