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GPL 3 As Bonfire of the Vanities

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Is it just me? by Limecron · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is it just me, or is GPL v2 or GPL v3 just another license, and not something one could compare to a religion?

  2. Re:Full Disclosure by ClosedSource · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't trust anything on faith, use reasoning.

  3. Re:Religious debate? by truthsearch · · Score: 0, Troll

    You make a very good point. I'd mod you up but you're responding to my own post. :)

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  4. Re:Full Disclosure by WoodstockJeff · · Score: 0, Troll
    This way, I can decide which elements I can reasonably trust on faith, and which elements may have ulterior motives for pomulgating.

    Sounds to me that the reason is that you can decide whether to reject the opinion outright because of your prejudice for or against the employer, or if you're going to have to bother coming up with a reasoned argument against it.

    It really doesn't matter who has the opinion, if it is based upon verifiable evidence. If you don't like the opinion, show where it deviates from the evidence, and *poof*, it disappears in a puff of logic. If you can not show that, then you might want to reconsider your opposition to it.