____/ BearItAll on Thursday 02 August 2007 11:27 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> GPLv3 picks up traction
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | When the GPLv3 first arrived, only a handful of programs made the shift.
>> | The most significant of these was Samba making good its promise to move
>> | its popular Windows-compatible file/print server program to the GPLv3.
>> |
>> | Since then, according to data collected by Palamida, an IP (intellectual
>> | property) management company, the GPLv3 is picking up steam. By July 31,
>> | Palamida found that 277 open-source projects had moved to using the
>> | GPLv3. At the beginning of the month, only 82 projects, most of them
>> | created by the Free Software Foundation, which created the GPLv3, had
>> | made the switch.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3553555248.html
>
> AAAAGGGGGGGHHHHH bleeding linux jernos.
>
> Sorry, ormmmmmmmm, I'm carming down now doing my yoga, got my legs wrapped
> round the back of my head and everything.
>
> Why can't these jernos see that there is no point in releasing the current
> release of software with a different version number just so that they can
> move to GPLv3.
>
> They will wait until they have something to release. Otherwise we will all
> get a ton of update traffic, all the update traffic will fly off the mirror
> sites clogging their bandwidth, and it would be all very very pointless
> because the software is exactly the same as the software it replaced, just
> a different version number.
>
> Be patient jernos, it wil come in time.
Yes, exactly. Palamida tracks projects that /intend/ to move to GPLv3. It had
over 5000 such projects the last time I checked.
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~~ Best of wishes
everytime you say things like this i just think of that cult of people
who send around .doc files. i dont want to communicate with people who
talk in .doc format, but they do not wish to use something else, so
they discredit those without word. --Ed, c.o.l.a.
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