[H]omer wrote:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
>
>> At some point, Mr Torvalds will realise just why the changes to the GPL
>> are so important. Fundamentally, it's about freedom, it's about
>> avoiding lock-in.
>
> You should read Torvalds comments from last month:
>
> "I think Tivoization is *good*"
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/17/303
Good idea. You should read it it too
> The whole sorry thread is quite a revelation. Torvalds has gone
> completely off the rails.
Really? What part of "They gave the software back! Be happy! They *followed*
the rules. They *followed* the tit-for-tat" is "of the rails"?
> If you're expecting to appeal to his sense of
> Freedom, I think you're wasting your time - he hasn't got one.
>
You mean the "freedom" *not* to be able to use lots of hardware if the
kernel where GPL3 (and silently praying that the day of a GPL3 kernel will
never come)? You mean the "freedom" not even to be allowed to use GPL3
software in certain voting machines? Freedom like that?
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