"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:19927399.3vnHHuK9ig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> GPL v3: In the home stretch
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> | For our part, we're pretty satisfied with where we are. We also think
> | that of the possible changes that might be made to the bits that people
> | are arguing over, IBM can live with the expected alternatives. Others
> | may have concerns, but we think we're almost there.
> `----
>
> http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1507
>
You are being far less than candid about the truth of the matter and are
trying to mislead those who are the willing victims of your nonsense. The
real situation is as stated by the IBM manager who oversees the entire
effort:
"Asked by CRN about his take on the third implementation of the GNU General
Public License, IBM Software General Manager Steve Mills didn't mince words.
"At some point you become so shrill and beyond what's required that you lose
the audience and the audience moves on to something else," he said.
Mills was referring to the Free Software Foundation's attempt to restrict
the use of cross-patent licenses in the new GPL. those restrictions, FSF
proponents say, could lead to a fork in the Linux code.
"At some point you become so shrill and beyond what's required that you lose
the audience and the audience moves on to something else," he said.
"We'll have to see what finally evolves through the [GPL] process, it's
going through an update and the Free Software Foundation has a particular
view of free software. Free software is a wonderful thing but there's also a
business model."
"We think there are other licensing techniques, the Apache license and
others are somewhat less onerous. We use them ourselves. We don't use the
GPL for reasons of its restrictions," Mills said."
http://www.crn.com/software/198701024
Wish, hope, pray, or whatever that the GPL will be adopted, but the big guys
are giving it a pass. At the end of the day, the FSF is just a bunch of
quacks who have lost touch with reality. The world is full of such.
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