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To: Golden Eagle
Go look at newsforge.com, linuxtoday.com, etc, where Stallman was praised and Torvalds ridiculed. Torvalds latest comments re:GPL v3 are that it is now quote "quite possible".

You read the blurb. Read the whole story.

"I end up having to be fairly vocal about it, just because I have to explain to people -- most of whom hate DRM -- why the key-signing clauses are problematic, and why we don't even want to entertain upgrading the license as it stands now."
The difference between Linus and Stallman is easily summed up here:
I think Linux has made the GPL more 'socially acceptable,' by being a hell of a lot less religious about it than the FSF was. ... To me the point of the GPL is not the 'convert the infidels' logic, but something totally different: 'quid pro quo.'"

183 posted on 02/24/2006 11:53:22 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
AR,

True, I view Stallman as more the Senile old grandfather of OpenSrouce than the face of it. Many in the oss community feel the same way. Stallman at his best is a touch too libertarian for my taste and at his worst is a moonbat..
185 posted on 02/24/2006 11:58:01 AM PST by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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