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[News] Media Serves Monopoly Abuser in Fight Against GPLv3

  • Subject: [News] Media Serves Monopoly Abuser in Fight Against GPLv3
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:21:24 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Signal and Noise in GPLv3

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| In an email to me last month, Linus Torvalds, who has been portrayed in the 
| media as GPLv3's main opponent, describes the language that he and other use 
| on the Linux kernel mailing list as "blunt, to the point, and not very 
| polite." When journalists quote pieces of it, he notes, often "the context of 
| that language is then lost entirely" -- and he adds that "it's not just the 
| text of the thread itself that is the context; the context is also how 
| technical people discussing things amongst each other is in itself a very 
| different context than a trade magazine article."       
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3692201


Related:

Misleading InformationWeek GPLv3 article

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| Linus's position is clear. He's repeatedly said that he'd use GPLv3 in 
| certain situations if there was a practical advantage, but he prefers v2 over 
| v3. That's fine. I prefer v3, but v2 is still a great licence.  
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/misleading_informationweek_gplv3_article


Why does Microsoft seem scared of GPLv3?

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| Microsoft is extremely keen to avoid "legal debate" over whether its recent 
| partnerships with Linux firms such as Novell, Xandros, and Linspire, mean 
| Redmond must assume any of the new licenses' legal obligations.  
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Why-does-Microsoft-seem-scared-of-GPLv3-/0,130061733,339279673,00.htm


Microsoft disses GPLv3 (and rocketman Kirk)

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| This is Thursday's IT Blogwatch: in which Microsoft squirms out of GPLv3's 
| clutches, perhaps.  
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http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5823


The Badger Game

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| So, by threatening everything and promising nothing (because would Microsoft 
| really sue anyone for patents, knowing how many competitors in the Linux 
| community have patents of their own?), Microsoft has skillfully managed to 
| get open source players to endorse Open XML. A variant of the classic Badger 
| Game if I ever heard one.    
| 
| Faced with cons like this, I am beginning to realize that having something 
| like the GPLv3 around is a very good idea. Even though the new GPL could not 
| have prevented this scam, it may help in the future.   
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007071302826OPMSPB

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