[antiRepublicrat]

Excellent article. It frames the GPL 3 debate, and with it the practical vs. the ideological, pretty well.

[N3WBI3]

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[Restorer]

Though it was also a time of increased vice (drinking, gambling and lipstick), most of these humanists were dedicated Christians who were merely reconciling their faith with observed reality.

An overly cheerful view of Renaissance life. As in the time of Socrates, philosophers really were destroying traditional religious constraints on behavior without replacing them with any other kind.

The Borgias and their ilk were not just Christians who liked to party. Their depravity and the reaction it created led directly to the Reformation.

[When_Penguins_Attack]

Richard Stallman, the enantiomeric image of Golden Eagle.

[impatient]

GPL 3.0 could be the end of the golden age of Linux.

If, in the likely event that Linus, the commercial distros, and the heavily-invested-into-Linux corporations stick with v2 while Debian and FSF go to 3, that, my friends, is the long-anticipated fork of Linux.

And if, in the likely event that development efforts cross the boundaries of the fork, then the inevitable accusations of one side will lead to challenges of the legal terms supporting the other, and the GPL will finally receive it's day in court. In this, it will likely faire better than expected, but not well enough to protect the current status-quo: where the license is respected for its intent out of a sense of community, and its legally-shakier provisions are ignored.

Stallman is proof that if you follow a liberal (who is right in spite of himself) even to the gates of paradise, he will complain about the humidity and torpedo the whole affair.

Oh well. Maybe it's time to start checking out NetBSD...