[Golden Eagle]

It clearly indicates his quote of the kernel becoming GPL3 as "quite possible", which is an essential 180 degree change from his previous comments. All Stallman had to do was publicly say "the Linux kernel developerS will decide" and wa-la Torvalds immediately started caving. Not to mention the kernel is only a small portion of "Linux distributions" and most everything else will certianly be converted. Even IF you hate admitting Stallman is firmly in control of the free open source software world, it's time you face up to it.

[rzeznikj at stout]

No it doesn't. As I've said, it seems the GPL v.3 is being toned down. Torvalds said no way to the then-current draft. It didn't necessarily imply he'd write off v.3 completely--just as it was written.

It doesn't take a genius to realize there's bad blood between Torvalds and RMS. It's just not logical (or very likely) that Torvalds will flip-flop.

[antiRepublicrat]

It clearly indicates his quote of the kernel becoming GPL3 as "quite possible", which is an essential 180 degree change from his previous comments.

In the article he still says now way as the draft stands now (see my other post). It is still a draft. He may accept the GPL3 final version for Linux if they remove the offending parts.