GPL 3 As Bonfire of the Vanities

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday March 9, 2006 @04:42AM from the one-life-to-live dept.

morganew writes "Jonathan Zuck has written a CNET Op-ed stating that the GPL 3 is about returning the flock to the faith, and is reminiscent of Savonarola's 'Bonfire of the Vanities', urging true believers to burn things that took their eyes off God. From Article: 'The commercial humanists such as Lawrence Lessig with his Creative Commons initiative have turned away from the Old Testament, and the GPL 3.0 license is a call to the faithful to reject these vanities'. Given the reaction by Linus Torvalds and nearly all the OSS business community to the GPL 3, are we going to see a break in the church?"

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Are we going to see a break in the church? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-09 04:50 · Score: 5, Funny

GPL 3: "I've created OSS Lutherans!"
Reasoning from analogies by hey! · 2006-03-09 04:57 · Score: 5, Funny

Reasoning from analogies is like tying your shoes with laces made of butter.

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MOD PARENT DOWN!!! by gEvil+(beta) · 2006-03-09 05:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Parent post is critical of Google and Apple!

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