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[News] [Linux] GPLv3 Goes Gold This Friday, Blocks Microsoft Misuse of Linux

  • Subject: [News] [Linux] GPLv3 Goes Gold This Friday, Blocks Microsoft Misuse of Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:28:39 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
GPL upgrade set for Friday

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| "GPL version 3 does clean up a lot of things about the GPL that were sort 
| of implicit in previous and become much more explicit here," such as how 
| the GPL interacts with other licenses, Spencer said.
| 
| Sun has expressed the possibility of offering its Solaris OS under the GPL 
| 3. The Linux kernel has been offered under the GPL previously.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070627/tc_infoworld/89681

[Richard Stallman:] Your Freedom needs Free/Libre Software

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| Many of us know that governments can threaten the human rights of 
| software users through censorship and surveillance of the Internet. 
| Many do not realize that the software they run on their home or work 
| computers can be an even worse threat.  Thinking of software as "just 
| a tool", they suppose that it obeys them, when in fact it often obeys 
| others instead.
| 
| The software running in most computers is non-free, proprietary
| software: controlled by software companies, not by its users.  Users
| can't check what these programs do, nor prevent them from doing what 
| they don't want.  Most people accept this because they have seen no 
| other way, but it is simply wrong to give developers power over the 
| users' computer.
| 
| This unjust power, as usual, tempts its wielders to further misdeeds. 
| If a computer talks to a network, and you don't control the software 
| in it, it can easily spy on you.  Microsoft Windows spies on users; 
| for instance, it reports what words a user searches for in her own 
| files, and what other programs are installed. 
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http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=43&ItemID=13157

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