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Tech Writers Spreading FUD About GPLv3

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the spreading-something-but-it-sure-ain't-fud dept.

Tookis writes "Tech writers are spreading FUD about GPLv3 because they fear its take up will slow the adoption of Linux, according to this open source writer. "A large number of tech writers — I wouldn't call them journalists and sully my own profession — are fearful that the license will slow adoption of Linux in the workplace. And that would lead to a lessening of their own importance and influence."" So by posting this, am I spreading fud about spreading fud? I think I broke my brain.

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  1. I wouldn't worry about sullying your profession by faloi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Journalism is well beyond being unsullied these days.

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    1. Re:I wouldn't worry about sullying your profession by utopianfiat · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Now Mr. Colbert, the left-wing critics love you... there are no right-wing critics."
                        -- Bill O'Reilly, "The O'Reilly Factor"

      Fox News writes their own jokes tyvm.

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    2. Re:I wouldn't worry about sullying your profession by Strilanc · · Score: 2, Funny

      All of these articles and comments about people spreading FUD are just FUD. Also annoying.

  2. It's Us or Them by LimpGuppy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember, if you are not for GPLv3 then you are for the terrorists, or something...

    1. Re:It's Us or Them by WED+Fan · · Score: 5, Funny

      The GNU/Prophet, holiness on his name, has decreed and the GNU/Word of GNU, There is But One GOD, GNU is its Name and Stallman is its Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him.

      The GNU/Word of GNU/God is GPL3. Stallman has declared GNU/FUDwah on the heretic Linus for crimes against the GNU/Faith:

      • For not changing his name to GNU/Linus and likewise naming his baby, GNU/Linux
      • For not adopting GPL3
      • For actually working for a living and participating in the evil capitalist system

      Face Berkeley, kneel, and pray.

      GNU/Holiness to GNU/God. GNU/Peace to the GNU/Prophet. GNU/Terminate to the Disbelievers, GPL2 Apostates, Other-Than-GPL Open License Perverts, Intellectual Property Holders, Copyright Defenders, Capitalists, for they have given themselves over to be the Children of the Greater and Lesser Closed Satans, Bill Gates and the U.S.A., respectively.

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    2. Re:It's Us or Them by Hal_Porter · · Score: 2, Funny

      I do not recall any clause in the GPL that states that the letters GNU must be included in the name of the project.

      Expect that it in GPL4.

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  3. Re:Strange.. by dattaway · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sometimes I wonder if people even know what Linux is, let alone the GPL

    That's GNU3/Linux. Please get it right.

  4. not tech writers too! by SABME · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tech writers too? Does this mean that, the next time I read a software manual, I'll have to endure an anti-GPLv3 diatribe in between descriptions of items in the Edit>Preferences menu?

  5. Um... by sootman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not trolling here, just being half serious/half funny--

    "...they fear its take up will slow the adoption of Linux..."

    I started going to LUG meetings over nine years ago. As much I love Linux, I don't think its rate of adoption could go much slower than it already is.

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    1. Re:Um... by nomadic · · Score: 2, Funny

      I started going to LUG meetings over nine years ago. As much I love Linux, I don't think its rate of adoption could go much slower than it already is.

      That will change very soon--I heard it's almost ready for the desktop!

  6. You're wrong by benhocking · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and is to buy in to the very crap they are selling.

    Nah, it's a different flavor. This one has peanuts in it!

    (I should've resisted the urge to post this, but for some reason I find compelled to foist this unpleasant analogy onto Slashdot.)

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  7. that's because... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    tech writers are idiots... truly idiots... tweeking fools... self-righteous, pedantic, ponderous technical 'tards...

    i should know because i was one!

    now i follow the Cult of Linus... and in self-sacrifice, have shorn both hands of my thumbs, forcing me to type only in hexadecimal...

  8. Re:You are an idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We might also note that most dictionaries published in the US call themselves dictionaries of "the American language", not "English", and have done so for quite a long time.


    Yeah, ever since that great scandal broke when King George sued over trademark violation.