Since RMS's office is now in the Gates building, maybe he has been assimilated and GPL v3 will include terms allowing Microsoft to make use of GPLed code and not release their sources, since the GPL has t erms allowing you to use a subsequent version
That's one way to close up all the open software. The GPL provides for redistribution under that version of the GPL, or any later version. Microsoft could have RMS killed, and then forcefully take ownership of the FSF. They would right a new GPL to their advantage, and then "release" all of the currently GPL'ed software to themselves under their new license.
-- Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Interesting to note the new terms
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"By using this software, you agree that Microsoft is teh suxx0rz!!!!"
I have the beta
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Hopefully they will fix the kernel panic issue...
-- Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti? Africus aut Europaeus?
GPL 3 Now Contains Flouride!
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They're trying to drain our precious bodily fluids...
Good :)
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I got mod points to burn, so I'll shoot...
Hopefully, they'll include the clause to allow companies to tahe GPL'd software, rip the copyrights out, and incorporate it into their own products and claim ownership.
This would solve the "problems" with the GPL all the "analysts" keep huffing and puffing about, and would allow our good friends at MS to use GPL code in their products and file suits against the authors who wrote it for "copyright violations."
FLAME ON!!! >:)
Only one change in v3.0
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It is now known as the GNU/GPL license.
Re:Only one change in v3.0
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Hi!
This is my friend, I don't think you two have met before: his name is Mr. Satire, but you can just call him Steve.
Just as version 2 was/is being tested in court we have to go for a new license which will no doubt leave us open to all sorts of patent problems that those untested proprietary licenses don't have.
The end is nigh
I heard Marvel is going to sue the creators of the GPL due to the fact that various words and phrases from the document can be mixed around and formed into well-known Marvel comic-book hero quotes.
Additional clause added...
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Re:Draft Copy?
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If you patent anything you put into the software, you loose your rights to use/distribute the software unless the patents are transfered to the public domain.
Actually, knowing the high level of literacy open source freaks regularly show, that's probably EXACTLY what it will say.
If the first draft isn't due out until next year, perhaps Slashdot could qualify "soon" in the headline of this article.
I think "soon" for Slashdot means "by the time we fix all the various problems with Slashcode, implement basic spellchecking for the editors, and train ourselves to look for dupes before publishing them to the front page."
-- I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
Rumored text of GPL revision
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Thou Shalt Not Commit Thy Software for Commerce
Thou Shalt Smite Thy Microsoftie
Thou Shalt Bow To Thy Benovolent Leader RMS Thy God And Have Ye No Other God Before Him
That Shalt Not Take the Name of GNU/Linux In Vain
Thou Shalt Mod Down the unholy SlashDot Troll, For He is an Abomination unto Thee
Thou Shalt Not Click on false Gmail Links
Thou Shalt Not Fall to the Evil Seductress BSD, for She is an Unrighteous Whore Unto Thee
Thou Shalt Close Thine Ears Upon Hearing the False Testimony of the SCO, the Lies of TCO, and the injustices of the CMDRTCO.
Thou Shalt Moderate this Post to the Heavens, That All The Earth May Know of the Great And Fearful GPL.
If your name is Bill Gates, Daryl McBride or Orrin Hatch you cannot use this software.
If this software is being used in a company whose name ends in AA (like in MPAA, RIAA), you cannot use this software.
If you are wondering where is the start button is, why you cannot install IE on it, or how come Kazaa doesn't work on it, type rm -rf and all your problems will be gone...
Slashdot Mirror
Since RMS's office is now in the Gates building, maybe he has been assimilated and GPL v3 will include terms allowing Microsoft to make use of GPLed code and not release their sources, since the GPL has t erms allowing you to use a subsequent version
"By using this software, you agree that Microsoft is teh suxx0rz!!!!"
Hopefully they will fix the kernel panic issue...
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
They're trying to drain our precious bodily fluids...
I got mod points to burn, so I'll shoot...
Hopefully, they'll include the clause to allow companies to tahe GPL'd software, rip the copyrights out, and incorporate it into their own products and claim ownership.
This would solve the "problems" with the GPL all the "analysts" keep huffing and puffing about, and would allow our good friends at MS to use GPL code in their products and file suits against the authors who wrote it for "copyright violations."
FLAME ON!!! >:)
It is now known as the GNU/GPL license.
Just as version 2 was/is being tested in court we have to go for a new license which will no doubt leave us open to all sorts of patent problems that those untested proprietary licenses don't have. The end is nigh
If the first draft isn't due out until next year, perhaps Slashdot could qualify "soon" in the headline of this article.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
I heard Marvel is going to sue the creators of the GPL due to the fact that various words and phrases from the document can be mixed around and formed into well-known Marvel comic-book hero quotes.
News Reporters Make Tasty Polar Bear Treats!
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III.j. For justice, all your base are belong to us.
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
If you patent anything you put into the software, you loose your rights to use/distribute the software unless the patents are transfered to the public domain.
Actually, knowing the high level of literacy open source freaks regularly show, that's probably EXACTLY what it will say.
If the first draft isn't due out until next year, perhaps Slashdot could qualify "soon" in the headline of this article.
I think "soon" for Slashdot means "by the time we fix all the various problems with Slashcode, implement basic spellchecking for the editors, and train ourselves to look for dupes before publishing them to the front page."
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
Thou Shalt Not Commit Thy Software for Commerce
Thou Shalt Smite Thy Microsoftie
Thou Shalt Bow To Thy Benovolent Leader RMS Thy God And Have Ye No Other God Before Him
That Shalt Not Take the Name of GNU/Linux In Vain
Thou Shalt Mod Down the unholy SlashDot Troll, For He is an Abomination unto Thee
Thou Shalt Not Click on false Gmail Links
Thou Shalt Not Fall to the Evil Seductress BSD, for She is an Unrighteous Whore Unto Thee
Thou Shalt Close Thine Ears Upon Hearing the False Testimony of the SCO, the Lies of TCO, and the injustices of the CMDRTCO.
Thou Shalt Moderate this Post to the Heavens, That All The Earth May Know of the Great And Fearful GPL.
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No,no...
You forgot:
If your name is Bill Gates, Daryl McBride or Orrin Hatch you cannot use this software.
If this software is being used in a company whose name ends in AA (like in MPAA, RIAA), you cannot use this software.
If you are wondering where is the start button is, why you cannot install IE on it, or how come Kazaa doesn't work on it, type rm -rf and all your problems will be gone...
how long until
finally removes the word "suckers" and is totally written in leetspeak.
I'm actually an RMS fanboy, but I've seen glaciers that move faster than some of the GNU projects.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
I realize that I'm just being a pedantic pain in the arse by pointing this out here. . .
Well, it's your shift. I'm on break.
KFG
While you 5-digit IDs get all hot and bothered by a silly person with a 6-digit ID, us 4-digit ID users will sit back and chuckle.
At least, this one will. ;-)
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