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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Re:Digital Rapacity Management by Zwets · 2006-02-03 03:10 · Score: 4, Funny

...and RMS and company worship a vengeful god, who will rain fiery death on the evil proprietary DRMed software.

:-p

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However, what's the question here? by Nicopa · 2006-02-03 03:21 · Score: 3, Funny

Martin Fink tells it like it is:
The question is not why you should migrate to GNU GPL v3, but why not?