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Number of GPL v3 projects tops 2,000
Da Massive writes "The number of open-source projects that use the GNU General Public License Version 3 has grown to more than 2,000, according to Palamida, which sells software and services for tracking open-source code within a customer's code base. 'Our database now contains over 2,000 projects that are using the GPL v3. "At this rate the GPL v3 is being adopted by 1,000 projects every 4-5 months, and if the trend continues, the license will be used by 5,000 projects by the end of the year," states a recent posting on Palamida's blog.'"
Dear Slashdotters,
I was so pleased by the response to my last letter that I decided to write another one. Don't worry; I have plenty of new stuff to say about John McCain and his hired goons. Let me start by stressing that I am not attempting to suppress anyone's opinions, nor do I intend to demean McCain personally for his beliefs or worldviews. But I do feel that I must put an end to McCain's evildoing. He thinks it would be a great idea to squander irreplaceable national treasures. Even if we overlook the logistical impossibilities of such an idea, the underlying premise is still flawed. He is still going around insisting that we should avoid personal responsibility. Jeez, I thought I had made it perfectly clear to him that if we contradict him, we are labelled irritable bozos. If we capitulate, however, we forfeit our freedoms.
Guess what? The first thing we need to do is to get McCain to admit that he has a problem. He should be counseled to recite the following:
* I, John McCain, am an unholy serpent.
* I have been a participant in a giant scheme to pollute the great canon of English literature with references to McCain's high-handed, querulous arguments.
* I hereby admit my addiction to sexism. I ask for the strength and wisdom to fight this addiction.
Once McCain realizes that he has a problem, maybe then he'll see that you might have heard the story that he once agreed to help us focus on concrete facts, on hard news, on analyzing and interpreting what's happening in the world. No one has located the document in which McCain said that. No one has identified when or where McCain said that. That's because he never said it. As you might have suspected, McCain's crusades oscillate between unreasonable anarchism and froward irreligionism. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that it's irritating for McCain to sully a profession that's already held in low esteem. Or perhaps I should say, it's fickle.
I, hardheaded cynic that I am, am truly horrified by McCain's devotion to the idea of a benevolent dictatorship of a self-appointed elite, by which I mean that if we are powerless to carry out the famous French admonition, écrasez l'infâme!, against McCain's orations, it is because we have allowed McCain to hinder economic growth and job creation. His peons consider his tirades a breath of fresh air. I, however, find them more like the fetid odor of Comstockism. On the other hand, Bonapartism doesn't work. So why does McCain cling to it? The answer is almost totally obvious -- this isn't rocket science, you know. The key is that the ultimate aim of McCain's offhand remarks is to restructure society as a pyramid with McCain at the top, McCain's representatives directly underneath, fastidious, antihumanist enemies of the people beneath them, and the rest of at the bottom. This new societal structure will enable McCain to stir up class hatred, which makes me realize that it may seem at first that he would love to see me contract leprosy and be forced to live out my benighted days shunned by humanity, ringing a bell, and shying away from sharps and open flames. When we descend to details, however, we see that my goal is to draw a picture of what we conceive of under the word "poluphloisboiotatotic". I will not stint in my labor in this direction. When I have succeeded, the whole world will know that McCain is sympathetic to sinister causes of all stripes. But there is a further-reaching implication: If he can't be reasoned out of his prejudices, he must be laughed out of them. If he can't be argued out of his selfishness, he must be shamed out of it.
McCain doesn't care about freedom, as he can neither eat it nor put it in the bank. It's just a word to him. He has a strategy. His strategy is to make libertinism socially acceptable. Wherever you encounter that strategy, you are dealing with McCain.
This is not wild speculation. This is n