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GPLv2 Vs. GPLv3
chessweb writes "Here is a rather enlightening article by Richard Stallman on the reasons for moving to GPLv3 that puts the previous TiVo post into the right context." From the article: "One major danger that GPLv3 will block is tivoization. Tivoization means computers (called 'appliances') contain GPL-covered software that you can't change, because the appliance shuts down if it detects modified software... The manufacturers of these computers take advantage of the freedom that free software provides, but they don't let you do likewise... GPLv3 ensures you are free to remove the handcuffs. It doesn't forbid DRM, or any kind of feature. It places no limits on the substantive functionality you can add to a program, or remove from it. Rather, it makes sure that you are just as free to remove nasty features as the distributor of your copy was to add them."
Doh - too slow!
Speaking of caving in to big business, Veruca Salt is a character from the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, written by Roald Dahl. She appears in the two film adaptations, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). In the 1971 adaptation, she is portrayed by Julie Dawn Cole; in the 2005 adaptation, she is portrayed by Julia Winter. Veruca is the only child of the wealthy couple, Henry/Rupert Salt and Angina Salt (a geography teacher in the revised book only, and named Henrietta in the 1971 film), and is a terribly spoiled brat. Veruca is the second child to find a ticket, and the third to misbehave and get thrown out of the tour.
In all three versions, Mr. Salt, Veruca's father (often called "Daddy" by Veruca in all three adaptations of the story), is the wealthy CEO, owner, and founder of a nut packaging and refining corporation. When Veruca announces that she wants (and must have) a Golden Ticket, her father buys thousands of Wonka Bars and makes his factory workers open them for her. As three days pass, Veruca spends all of them impatiently kicking her legs about, while she screams about how she wants her Golden Ticket. Finally, a staff member finds the ticket, and, as Veruca's father describes it in the book, she is "all smiles again." She'll have a temper tantrum if she doesn't get what she wishes for, and her parents usually rush to give her her desire.
Veruca Salt represents one of the Seven Deadly Sins: greed. She is described in every incarnation as "spoiled rotten," and each story tells of how her parents have given in to her every whim and desire since the day she was born. As such, she is constantly asking for things whether or not she needs them, and seems to think she can take whatever she wants, whenever she wants it. For example, in her various incarnations, she has asked for (or rather demanded) an Oompa Loompa (despite the fact that they are technically human) and one of Wonka's squirrels (geese in the 1971 film). She often begins most of her demands with "Daddy/Mummy, I want..." and when she isn't immediately catered to, she follows it up with a vicious and emphatic "NOW!" She also seems to have a slight connection to the sin of envy, such as in the 1971 film when she believes Violet received more gobstoppers than she did and subsequently tries to wrestle them away from her. She is likewise jealous whenever any of the children receive any sort of special gift or token that she herself does not receive, though this aspect of her personality is most apparent in the 1971 adaption of the film but not so much in the others.
By BSDI who seel of Wa7nut Creek,
Um you didn't really read the draft did you?
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