Good news for pragmatists, bad news for the church of software.
By now everybody should know that Linus isn't biting. GPLv2 is more free than v3.
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Stallman should have quit while he was ahead. By pushing his political agenda into the license, he’s alienating a large base of the OSS community.
2 posted on
09/27/2007 6:04:38 AM PDT by
kevkrom
(The religion of global warming: "There is no goddess but Gaia and Al Gore is her profit.")
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3 posted on
09/27/2007 7:31:15 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
authored by the main governing body for open source and free software When were they declared to be that? I guess I didn't get the memo.
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Now if everyone who uses Stallman’s software and licenses would start trying to replace them like BSD does he might actually be completely mitigated, although I don’t see anyone else actually working to do that.
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