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Eben Moglen — GPLv3 Not About MS and Novell

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the having-to-restate-the-obvious dept.

Linux.com's Joe Barr was recently able to sit down with Professor Eben Moglen at the San Diego Red Hat Summit and discuss the GPLv3 and what it means beyond the Microsoft/Novell deal on video. "Professor Moglen explains briefly about GPLv3's work on globalization of the software license, preventing harm to others by members of the community, and the most contentious in earlier drafts, DRM."

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  1. Re:they're right by iago-vL · · Score: 1, Troll

    That's fine and dandy until somebody takes your markets your application and sells it for millions, while you're slaving away. Perhaps you could argue that selling it is "messing with it" -- but that's not necessarily true. And then comes the legal-speak...

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    http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/
  2. LOL by petrus4 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Novell comments that if "the Free Software Foundation releases a new version of the GNU General Public License with certain currently proposed terms, our business may suffer harm."

    Someone needs to sit a few people from Novell down at some point and explain to them that a desire to ensure that businesses suffer harm was arguably one of the main motivations behind the GPL having been written at all.

    For once, I wish someone could actually give me a reasoned rebuttal on why they believe that I'm wrong in believing that (at least the intention behind) the GPL is largely anticapitalist, instead of simply calling me names (an idiot, a troll, "disingenous" etc) for making the statement. Continuing to only do that strongly implies that you don't actually have a rebuttal for that assertion, and so simply attempting to bury me in ad hominem is the best way to divert attention from that.

    It's a shame I also can't run a betting pool about how likely I am to be told verbatim to again "shut the fuck up," in response to this as well. I suspect I'd end up making rather a large sum of money. ;-)

    Maybe Stallman's drones here genuinely are beginning to get desperate, if simply attempting to demand my silence is becoming the preferred way of answering rather than even regurgitating the usual rhetoric in response to me.