__/ [ [H]omer ] on Tuesday 01 May 2007 04:13 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Guy Fawkes spake thusly:
>>
http://news.com.com/So+much+for+the+new+and+improved+GPL/2010-7344_3-6179947.html
>>
>> Blog from a spinster belonging to the PFF (http://www.pff.org), a front
>> for Microsoft & Co. Maybe we should start a 'name and shame' campaign to
>> disclose all these fake grass-roots organizations and to discredit them,
>> ban them from publishing their nonsense on news sites such as news.com.
>>
>> Not worth the paper it's written on...not even worth the bytes stored in
>> electronic memory.
>
> Executive summary:
>
> Anti-GPL lobbyist surmises that the GPLv3 will prohibit the use of DRM,
> despite Bruce Perens strenuously denying it, and hence it will therefore
> be BadForBusiness®.
>
> His piece is one long windbag article of speculation about something
> that has already been disproved, designed to further propagate
> disinformation to undermine the GPLv3.
>
> And to what end? Well ask yourself, who stands to lose most from the
> adoption of FOSS and the strengthening of the GPL?
Microsoft is still fiddling with the press.
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/03/28/media-vs-linux/
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