I haven't read the whitepaper, but the overview (link below) indicates that the author feels that companies using software which violates the GPL, may also be violating Sarbanes-Oxley as well. He specifically mentions the habit that vendors have of binary only Kernel loadable modules (think 3590 support on zSeries Linux).
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