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Linus on GPL3 In Forbes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rehashing-bad-blood dept.

musicon writes "In an interview via e-mail with Forbes, Torvalds discusses GPLv3, digital rights management and sharks with laser beams. From the article: 'I'm sure changes will be made [to GPLv3]. The fact that the FSF and I have some fundamentally different views of what the GPLv2 was all about makes me worry that we won't find a good agreement on the next version.'"

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  1. opinions change, and that's a good thing by aeoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Long time ago I used to think very highly of Linus. But I am under no obligation to continue to think so.

    Today I think Linus is pretty much irrelevant, if not foolish. But at least he's not arrogantly and offensively stupid yet -- only just foolish.

    I think some people in technical community feel like they're married to Linus. Meaning, whatever Linus things, they have to "yes dear". Ah, no. We're not married to Linus. If Linus starts spouting off nonsense to Forbes, then "fuck you Linus" may be in order.

    So far I don't think a "fuck you" is actually in order, but nor does it shake the foundations of my being if I used to really like Linus' personality in the past and now I like it less. Big woop de doo. Things change. Sure, someone can say that Linus was this way all along, but that's not what I'm talking about. How can I possibly know how Linus really is? I can't. All I know is my experience, which is contextual. In other words, maybe I realized just now that I really don't care all that much for Linus' opinion. So what? I still respect his coding skills, but I don't have to base myself on Linus (or RMS for that matter).

    The reason I like RMS is not RMS himself, but the idea that he stands for.

    So let's just relax and stop posting articles about Linus' opinion, like it matters. Linus' opinion matters when it comes time to include patches into his tree and what happens to his family, etc. But other than that, it doesn't matter much.