Going from GPLv2 to what we know now as AGPLv3 would remove the right for GPL developers to have private modifications.
Remember, GPLv3 was always an update to GPLv2 -- adding AGPL-style elements would have caused far less projects to switch to GPLv3, which was the larger goal, due to Tivoisation and other fixes in the updated license.
As I understand it, AGPLv2 was written by Eben for Affero -- a company headed by Henri Poole, who is on the FSF board. While incompatible with GPLv2, there was always a plan to migrate AGPL provisions to a GPL compatible license. Which is what happened.
The fact that the FSF sought feedback from the community on the issue shows humility, in my opinion.
It doesn't support any of the other music stores that support DRM. Also, with the DRM store right there in with your other music, I think it's reasonable to consider it a lock in.
Maybe Apple should offer alternative stores in iTunes.
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Going from GPLv2 to what we know now as AGPLv3 would remove the right for GPL developers to have private modifications.
Remember, GPLv3 was always an update to GPLv2 -- adding AGPL-style elements would have caused far less projects to switch to GPLv3, which was the larger goal, due to Tivoisation and other fixes in the updated license.
As I understand it, AGPLv2 was written by Eben for Affero -- a company headed by Henri Poole, who is on the FSF board. While incompatible with GPLv2, there was always a plan to migrate AGPL provisions to a GPL compatible license. Which is what happened.
The fact that the FSF sought feedback from the community on the issue shows humility, in my opinion.
FSF here. Thanks man. We appreciate it.
The League for Programming Freedom was formed by Stallman around the Apple UI lawsuits -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_for_Programming_Freedom
As for gcc -- NeXT refused to contribute its patches back to the FSF for a while. http://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/Objective-C/answers.html has some info on that.
No, this is the FSF.
There are lots of Apple Stores. Around here, there at least three that are pretty close.
I went to all three of them.
It doesn't support any of the other music stores that support DRM. Also, with the DRM store right there in with your other music, I think it's reasonable to consider it a lock in.
Maybe Apple should offer alternative stores in iTunes.
iPod/phone doesn't play WMV.
The FSF supports people making money from free software.
Free Software has never been about technical merit, but rather ethics.
I'm in.
Actually, there's a seperate iPhone/iPod part to the genius bar.
The genius bar is also for people who are trying to understand the products.
If the target here had been Samsung, or Nokia, would you have acted the same way?
Crowding? They only have a finite number of slots. Are you accusing everyone who uses the genius bar of crowding the store?
They might not set the policies, but I'm sure the genius bar staff are aware of the issues.
Why? What's your suggestion for people who want to see things change?
Got any evidence to back up these claims?
I've met females from Canada at HOPE! Apparently some people just don't read.
Too old for Captain Crunch?
Wish I could be... hopefully this will not actually be the final HOPE conference.
Autonomous isn't that hard to spell.
And there's a link from fsf.org - so, I think even the morons as you call them will be able to spell that.
Try turning off CSS is your browser - you'll notice that there's a perfect text version supplied.
Yeah.
The Firehose story is more accurate.
This group is seperate from the FSF.
The FSF news story explains that.
I'm pretty sure people had a clue about what they were working on as early as September 1983, when Stallman announced GNU.
You're entitled to your opinion, of course.