After takin' a swig o' grog, Peter Köhlmann belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Sun woos FSF with GPLv3 carrot while Linux gets the stick
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>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | With Sun's help and encouragement, the FSF is essentially saying
>> | to Linus Torvalds and friends, either play ball with us and accept
>> | GPLv3 or we'll shift our support over to Sun. Will it work? Is Sun
>> | a better partner in the FSF's crusade for purity in free software?
>> | Or will the pragmatists and the compromisers win in the end? Time
>> | will tell, but the game just got a whole lot more interesting.
>> `----
>>
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=257
>
> The FSF can build their own version of "SUNix"
> And get lost while doing so. It will *not* be linux then
I'm not enough of a EULAgizer to know for sure, but it seems to me that
combining a GPLv3 GNU system with a GPLv2 kernel causes no problem at
all. Maybe I'm wrong though, as DRM in the kernel could prevent a GNU
user from accessing content or drivers.
Maybe it doesn't matter anyway, as the discord is already sown?
Also, so what if a partial migration to SUNix or Solarix occurs, as long
as people have freedom from the cheating and bullying that goes on in
the corporate computing world? (Of course, this assumes that Sun
doesn't do some cheating. Remember SCO.)
Although I realllllly like Linux, it's nice to have other UNIX-like
systems around, even Apples. They're all a big improvement on
Microsoft's products, in more than just technology.
Personally, I'm avoiding DRM'ed products no matter what, so Linux or
Solarix or even BSD/Linux are fine by me. I don't give a damn about
marketers who want to use Linux to further their agendas.
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It's not a bug, it's a feature!
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