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Linux Creator Calls GPLv3 Authors 'Hypocrites'
AlexGr writes "We've heard conflicting tales regarding Linus Torvalds' acceptance of GPLv3. InformationWeek reports on comments by Mr. Torvalds that would seem to decide the issue: 'Torvalds said the authors of a new software license expected to be used by thousands of open source programmers are a bunch of hypocrites ... For Torvalds' part, it appears unlikely he'll ever adopt GPLv3 for the Linux kernel. He accused the Free Software Foundation leadership, which includes eccentric, MIT-trained computing whiz Richard Stallman, of injecting their personal morality into the laws governing open source software with the release of GPLv3. "Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality," Torvalds wrote.'"
You obviously don't go to church. If you go to a church where the preacher consistently puts forward a version of the faith that you disagree with, you go to another church. You don't hang around because, hey, you can sell a lot of cookies at the bake sale.
In any case, so long as we're in agreement that Linus doesn't believe in freedom or defending it, and is only using the GPL because it helps his project gain momentum, there's no need to argue about the little differences of our opinions is there?
How we know is more important than what we know.