It's also the first I've heard on GPL v.3
Methinks this is yet another attempt by RMS, FSF, and their buddies to perpetuate the age-old flame wars over GNU/Linux usage, etc. that has at times divided the OSS community...
It is. RMS has made the GPLv3 very political from some of the things I'm reading about it.
The guy's just nuts. "His" OSS movement is really making ground and gaining alot in alot of areas, and he's letting it go to his head as if he had alot to do with it.
Linus isn't a pinko like RMS. It's diarrhea of the mouth when he speaks about how immoral proprietary software is. Linus isn't like that. He just wants to make good code and hopes that people will keep using it.
People don't care about if the code is open or not. People are all about productivity. That's it.