Rishi,
Rishi Gangoly wrote:
Whenever I meet a director or CEO of a software company and talk to them about FSF and talk them into considering licensing their software with GPL, at first they listed but then the fear factor takes over.
The link below might help answer some of your questions.
Open Source as a Business Strategy by Brian Behlendorf
Brian is a co-founder and a core member of the Apache Group.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/brian.html
HTH,
Lenish