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OSI Turns Down 4 Licenses; Approves Python Foundation's
Russ Nelson writes "The Open Source Initiative turned down four licenses this week. Not to name names, but one license had a restrictive patent grant that only applied to GPL'ed operating systems. Another was more of a rant than a license. Another was derived from the GPL in violation of the GPL's copyright. And the fourth had insufficient review on the license-discuss
mailing list (archives). The one license that did pass was the Python Software Foundation License."
FP Beey0tch!!!!11111!1!1!111
n/t
...is my liscence to FIRST POST!
oh god how i hate all of you. i can't post this for 10 more seconds. tra la la tra la la. wooooohooooo. can i go yet?
fuck fuck fuckity fuck
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anyone have links to copies of the rejected licenses?
This site is losing all credibility quickly.
Stories about people in Afganistan who dig up commodores and then download / watch divx movies have killed off every last shred of believability this haven for anti-ms zealots ever had.
It is time to get rid of katz
It's not like we're going to make RMS starve if we copy it. He doesn't make his living selling copies does he?
Maybe, after losing the GNOME board election, he's now the high-tech equivalent of the people who hand out communism/socialism/Christianity/[insert social-issue-of-the-week here] pamphlets on street corners.
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This isn't a troll. In fact, a post that says something quite similar in this slashdot post was rated insightful are you all on crack??
bill gates - is that you? I didnt know you hung out on /.
Everybody's Fancy
© 1967, Fred M. Rogers
Click to listen to the song.
Some are fancy on the outside.
Some are fancy on the inside.
Everybody's fancy.
Everybody's fine.
Your body's fancy and so is mine.
Boys are boys from the beginning.
Girls are girls right from the start.
Everybody's fancy.
Everybody's fine.
Your body's fancy and so is mine.
Girls grow up to be the mommies.
Boys grow up be the daddies.
Everybody's fancy.
Everybody's fine.
Your body's fancy and so is mine.
I think you're a special person
And I like your ins and outsides.
Everbody's fancy.
Everybody's fine.
Your body's fancy and so is mine.
This is currently tagged "Flamebait," which it may well be; but man did he just crack my ass up! Cheers... moderators, please take it easy. This was done in good humor, me thinks.
put the what in the where?
not a troll. hit CNN.