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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.
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?
"...my chainsaw is incompatible with my text editor."
You should've used emacs.
We need to draft laws in a logic language. I propose a LISP dialect.
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!