On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:48:17 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message <2595273.z4aprzg5ZR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Which way, open-sourcers?
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>> | As the community begins choosing sides, will Stallman and the FSF be
>> | made irrelevant? Will GPLv3 and its goal of ethical purity fall to the
>> | wayside as the open-source community rejects it?
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> http://news.com.com/2010-7344_3-6114507.html?part=rss&tag=6114507&subj=news
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> This is one instance where I think Richard Stallman is right. I get this
> feeling that Linus Torvalds doesn't really understand what the GPL is all
> about, and that we're lucky he chose it for the Linux code in the first
> place.
>
> I'm looking forward to GPLv3. I think it's looking good so far.
It's great in principle, but in practice I think it will cause problems.
DRM is a bad thing all round, but IMO this is not the best way to fight
it. If Linux had a much larger presence on the desktop, it might be
better, but at the moment.....
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Kier
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