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New 'No Military Use' GPL For GPU
Tina Gasperson writes "GPU is a Gnutella client that creates ad-hoc supercomputers by allowing individual PCs on the network to share CPU resources with each other. That's intriguing enough, but the really interesting thing about GPU is the license its developers have given it. They call it a 'no military use' modified version of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The developers told Newsforge why they did it, with commentary from OSI and FSF." Newsforge is also owned by OSTG, Slashdot's parent company.
Fcuk you all and your insipid cynicism, they made their point. good for them.
God was my co-pilot, but then we crashed and I was forced to eat him.
What kind of crazy Americo-Fascist are you? Are you stupid? Insane!? Of course they would. Only evil, white, imperialist men know how to lie. Iranians and North Koreans are gentle, noble savages. They, like Democrats, never lie. They just need love, understanding, and respect. If Americans would stop bombing 1/2 the world's population and coercing the other 1/2 into servitude to their vast capitalist war machine, the world would return to the natural state of idyllic tranquility that existed before the white man came.
Everyone knows that.
-stormin
The Southern Baptist Convention has creationism. On Slashdot, we have porn.
I mean, the current US government has no problems taking quite liberal (hah!) interpretations of laws and powers to fulfill its goals. Gitmo prisoners, anyone? Spying on citizens with no warrants, despite a perfectly good system already in place?
To think that the US Gov't would give one second's thought to this 'limitation' if they wanted to use the software is laughable...
They'd just call the authors terrorists...and the people would be frothing to find them and beat them.
Fear. Obey. Consume.
Blar.
I'll bet that did not come through the translation engine as well as you may have expected. Try writing in english instead of relying on bablefish. Or is that how you normaly communicate?
No man is an island... But I wouldn't mind having a bigger moat.
Why is this a troll? Because it goes against Slashbot groupthink? The parent is right, what would the world be like if we refused to ever go to war? For one thing, we would all be speaking Japanese or German. And if we refuse to go to war in the next few years, we'll all be speaking Arabic.
And if you encourage violence what response do you expect in return? Hint, don't be shocked when "terrorists" blow up your shopping mall or airplane if you boast like louts about beating plowshares into swords. "He who lives by the sword dies by the sword." Of course all you you Christian Zionist supporters of violence have a rather selective memory for your "good book" quotations, don't you?
Tired of all the isms, don't exploit people as an employer, or a government, mmmmK?