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MIT makes sense in a Capitalist world where corpos want all the advantages of FOSS without having to give up the massive amounts of money generated and protected by IP laws.
Copyleft licensing scares them away, and anything that scares mega-corps away is probably good.
Don't get me wrong, MIT is still better than proprietary licensing, but not as good as strong Copyleft licensing like the GPL.
There are occasions in which you do want your software to be easily adopted by large corporations.
Of course, that's what I said; in this Capitalist world, sometimes you have to compromise and choose a worse license in order to support FOSS.