Torvalds Explains Dislike For GPLv3

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 3, 2006 @02:57AM from the not-enough-penguins dept.

Joe Barr writes "Linus Torvalds explains in three recent posts why he doesn't care for the DRM restrictions in GPLv3, and he has never been one to hold back. From his commentary: 'I _literally_ feel that we do not - as software developers - have the moral right to enforce our rules on hardware manufacturers. We are not crusaders, trying to force people to bow to our superior God. We are trying to show others that co-operation and openness works better.' NewsForge has the complete text of all three posts available." We discussed his initial reaction to GPL3 at the end of last month. NewsForge is a sister site to Slashdot.

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Open by Joebert · 2006-02-03 03:07 · Score: -1, Flamebait

We are trying to show others that co-operation and openness works better

Aren't theese the same people that tout the security of their systems, via firewalls & super encrypted passwords ?

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If Linus thinks.. by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-03 03:10 · Score: -1, Flamebait

..openness and cooperation works better, then why didn't he release his Linux kernel under a BSD license?