[N3WBI3]

Basically a hit piece on stallman, not that he does not have it coming.

Personally I hope there is a split, it would push RedHat, Novell, and a few others back a few months but the code licensed under gpl2 could be extended w/out stallman and his band of Merry misfits..

[zeugma]

I would imagine that very few groups would adopt V3. The additional effort to stay with V2 swill likely be minimal. There will be a bunch of forks, then the market will decide which it prefers.

If Stallman wants to publish a new license, he is certainly free to do so, but he doesn't have the power to make other people use it.

I share his concern about DRM. I think it's not good for consumers. However, license restrictions is not the way to deal with this. Personally, I agree with Linus' more pragmatic stance to Stallmans.

 

[Golden Eagle]

Personally I hope there is a split

While it would be tremendously beneficial for Linux vendors to seperate themselves somewhat from the leftist Stallman and his radical anti-commercial philosophies, the reality is the majority of any Linux distribution is comprised of software licensed under Stallman's GPL, and Stallman owns the copyrights on much of that software. They can of course "fork it", but then they are left with having to completely manage all those pieces themselves, and with the tiny income that free software provides these companies it may not be possible. We'll know if they're serious about seperating from Stallman if/when someone sues him for patent infringement, too bad it hasn't already happened.