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Torvalds Talks About GPLv3
Information Week ^ | March 17th | Charles Babcock

Posted on 03/18/2007 7:52:24 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing

That Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, prefers the current version of the General Public License, GPLv2, over the version in development, GPLv3, is no secret. But in a lengthy E-mail response to questions from InformationWeek, he offers a full explanation of what he thinks is superior about GPLv2.

Torvalds says he regrets that the authors of GPLv3 have decided to take aim at political opponents. He has little patience for statements about the "evil and immoral" nature of proprietary code or the "TiVo-ization" of Linux (a reference to set-top box producer TiVo producing a device that runs only one version of Linux), both statements made by Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and one of the authors of GPLv3. "Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not evil. ... It just doesn't matter," Torvalds says. If the authors of GPLv3 try to impart bans on digital rights management and prohibit other perceived evils, they will clutter up the simplicity of GPLv2 and end up telling people what they can or cannot do with GPL software. "The real basic issue is that I think the FSF simply doesn't have goals that I can personally sign up to," he adds.

(Excerpt) Read more at informationweek.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: bestofiggle; foss; fsf; gebait; gpl; howardbeale; linus; linustorvalds; linux; network; oss; threadjester; torvalds; worstofiggle
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To: rzeznikj at stout

Do I detect HAPPINESS here?


41 posted on 03/20/2007 2:20:17 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Depends...


42 posted on 03/20/2007 2:40:33 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

I wont need Depends for another 2 years. Good feud goin on tho!


43 posted on 03/20/2007 3:01:14 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

I wont need Depends for another 20 years. Good feud goin on tho!


44 posted on 03/20/2007 3:01:26 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Another 2 years?

ROTF!


45 posted on 03/20/2007 4:43:46 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

Smart a$$........I fixed it on the next post : )


46 posted on 03/20/2007 4:45:37 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
LOL

Click Here

47 posted on 03/20/2007 5:21:46 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: Golden Eagle
Yep, so the unlucky who stumbled onto your endless lies

And despite claims, you have yet to document one in this thread.

I've shown several incorrect claims

Blah, blah, strawman, blah. Talk to me when you find they've falsified court papers, transcripts and other documents they've dug up that are quite damning to SCO.

48 posted on 03/20/2007 6:09:21 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: stephenjohnbanker

^^^^^^^^^^^Do I detect HAPPINESS here?^^^^^^^^^^^

Well that depends on what your definition of 'is' is.


49 posted on 03/20/2007 8:01:09 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

LMAO!!


50 posted on 03/20/2007 8:17:59 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

Thank you for one of the funniest scenes in film history!


51 posted on 03/20/2007 8:23:30 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

...by far


52 posted on 03/20/2007 8:49:27 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: Golden Eagle; antiRepublicrat
"With slaves like you at his feet, why not?"

GE cycles from trying to have serious debate to a troll to a caricature of a troll depending on the phase of the moon, right now he is a bad caricature of a troll...

53 posted on 03/21/2007 7:55:36 AM PDT by N3WBI3 ("Help me out here guys: What do you do with someone who wont put up or shut up?" - N3WBI3)
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To: Golden Eagle
Logical Fallacy: Something posted on the Internet does not make it a fact.
54 posted on 03/21/2007 7:56:29 AM PDT by N3WBI3 ("Help me out here guys: What do you do with someone who wont put up or shut up?" - N3WBI3)
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To: antiRepublicrat

More proof of your BS defending "leftist loons".

InformationWeek: IBM Helps Fund Web Hosting For Anti-SCO Site Groklaw

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198100504

How many times have you claimed this wasn't true? I'd have to go back and look, but I'd say at least 10 times. At least.


55 posted on 03/22/2007 1:33:11 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
More proof of your BS defending "leftist loons". How many times have you claimed this wasn't true? I'd have to go back and look, but I'd say at least 10 times.

Proof? Do you read anything more than misleading headlines? There is zero new information in the article. This has already been brought up -- and shot down -- on this board several times as you mention. Groklaw existed before moving to ibiblio, and it moved according to standard ibiblio criteria, along with Project Gutenberg (which is a lot older than ibiblio, about as old as the Internet itself). There are over 1,600 sites comprising 8 terabytes of data with 15 million hits a day at ibiblio. That's one hell of a conspiracy theory.

56 posted on 03/23/2007 7:38:19 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

The article is quite clear, and after interviewing the directorof the project reports quote "IBM's financial support is ongoing".

For you to continue your lies they do not is just further proof of your endless dishonesty.


57 posted on 03/23/2007 11:51:18 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
The article is quite clear, and after interviewing the directorof the project reports quote "IBM's financial support is ongoing".

Let me get this straight. IBM, along with other companies, sponsors ibiblio way back in 2000, when The SCO Group was still a Linux company. At the time, ibiblio starts hosting hundreds of sites for free, and all the sites have to do is fit the basic criteria (basically, non-profit and interesting).

The next year The SCO Group buys Santa Cruz's server division and a couple years later sues IBM. Groklaw, hosted at a free service, starts covering it. Groklaw gets popular, has to move, goes to hosting provided by a reader, melts that server, and finally applies to ibiblio. Groklaw is accepted since it meets the criteria.

You are being dishonest and need to remove the tin foil hat if you actually can twist that into Groklaw being influentially funded by IBM, or being an IBM front.

I'd love to get the time machine that IBM had to know to commit funding to ibiblio in order to counter a UNIX suit three years in the future by a then Linux company.

58 posted on 03/23/2007 1:13:25 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
The article clearly proves 2 things you've been desperately trying to deny with lies for years - that Jokelaw's hosting site is in fact currently being funded by IBM, and that Jokelaw routinely posts bogus information such as their own previous denials of ongoing IBM funding. The only thing you've gotten right is your recent admission that the mysterious 'PJ' that runs it is a "leftist loon" LOL.
59 posted on 03/23/2007 1:47:01 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: antiRepublicrat; Golden Eagle

His point is, and yes its a stupid one but lets not overlook it:

IBM still gives money (we dont know how much) to ibiblio, the question he needs to be asked is aside from editorial content / debate, is there anything facutally wrong on the site regarding sco v ibm? All groklaw does is put up the public court documents from the case and then comment on it.

Your point is more than valid if we through out every article from a site that takes money from MS (say in the form of a grant, or advertising) you would not be able to use any of it.


60 posted on 03/23/2007 2:12:02 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("Help me out here guys: What do you do with someone who wont put up or shut up?" - N3WBI3)
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