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Will Stallman Kill the "Linux Revolution?"
frdmfghtr writes "The October 30 issue of Forbes Magazine has an article speculating that Richard Stallman's efforts to rewrite the GPL could threaten to 'tear it apart.' The article describes how the GPLv3 is expected to be incompatible with the GPLv2, causing trouble for Linux vendors such as Novell and Red Hat. The article wraps it up: 'And a big loser, eventually, could be Stallman himself. If he relents now, he likely would be branded a sellout by his hard-core followers, who might abandon him. If he stands his ground, customers and tech firms may suffer for a few years but ultimately could find a way to work around him. Either way, Stallman risks becoming irrelevant, a strange footnote in the history of computing: a radical hacker who went on a kamikaze mission against his own program and went down in flames, albeit after causing great turmoil for the people around him.'"
It would be nice to have everything under compatible licenses, but it would also be nice to have all DRM proponents sent to PMITA prison.
You mean, because you cannot pirate a GPL3ed work, and we need pirates to prevent global warming?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
we need pirates to prevent global warming?
Yes we do
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
Ramen brother.
:-)
Arrrrrrr. (Just doing my bit to fight global warming
Ian Ameline
Well Duh... It's Forbes! Forbes seems to hate everything about the Free Software movement, mostly since they haven't figured out how to profit from it yet. I guess that you can't blame them... When was the last time you saw Debian or MySQL buy full page ads in business magazines like Microsoft and Oracle do every month?
I'll see your Theo and Richard and raise you an alleged Hans.
"...my chainsaw is incompatible with my text editor."
You should've used emacs.
Will Stallman Kill the "Linux Revolution?"
This post expresses my opinion, not that of my employer. And yes, IAAL.
We need to draft laws in a logic language. I propose a LISP dialect.
It doesn't specify humans. Some of us consider killing all animals to be murder. But where to I draw my line ? Bacteria, a wild dog attacking me, a mosquito ?
3 3_en_6.htm#mdiv63
Specificity for such things is always hard to pin down.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1994/Ukpga_199400
Here the state tries to define rave music in order to outlaw it
63.--(1) This section applies to a gathering on land in the open air of 100 or more persons (whether or not trespassers) at which amplified music is played during the night (with or without intermissions) and is such as, by reason of its loudness and duration and the time at which it is played, is likely to cause serious distress to the inhabitants of the locality; and for this purpose--
(a) such a gathering continues during intermissions in the music and, where the gathering extends over several days, throughout the period during which amplified music is played at night (with or without intermissions); and
(b) "music" includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
As the Bible is a religious text, supposedly written by God
Actually, God wrote the source code. The compilers sucked and the implementations were buggy. It has something to do with that Free_Will feature that allows the subroutines to rewrite their own code.
Mankind sucks as a developer enviroment. That's why He had to choose one people as an independent partition to test out the code before installing it and the 2.0 rev on the whole system with Jesus_Christ. Unfortunately all the damn programs running in multitask conflicted with each other on task priorities and implementation rules and messed it up again.
And G W Bush has added the following to the US constitution: "6 rolls 2-ply luxury bathroom tissue. 100% recycled paper. Average 240 sheets per roll. Sheet size 110 x 125mm. Total area 13.2m2."
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!