Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Thursday 24 January 2008 08:35 : \____
>
>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> ____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 22 January 2008 15:13 : \____
>>>>
>> < snip >
>>
>>>> I was rather stunned to find that even in a Free software development
>>>> list you'd have people who are merely seeking to exploit. This wasn't the
>>>> first such incident and I've been on that list since the start (2004).
>>>> Either way, Matt Mullenweg was willing to listen, so it was worth
>>>> bringing up.
>>>>
>>>> It seems like many GPL haters just use v3 as an excuse to attack. I know
>>>> two BSD bloggers who did this.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I was genuinely shocked to see some of the people here that I had
>>> considerable respect for suddenly become rabid, irrational beings, when
>>> the possibility of taking free software and proprietarising it might be
>>> taken away, at least for the kernel, through GPLv3.
>>
>> What are you blubbering about?
>> The kernel will probably remain GPL2 for quite some time
>> It is currently not endangered to become GPL3
>
> OpenSolaris adopts GPLv3, apparently (not yet known to what extent). Linus said
> this would make him (unfortunately to him) re-consider GPLv3 as well.
> Developers go with the flow and choose based on licences. Just look at BSDs
> and where they are..
Solaris under GPLv3 would get very strong support from the FSF, and
would see a large number of developers migrate, I think.
>
>>> There are many people who, it seems, are happy to ride on the back of
>>> the efforts of others, withholding key information which ensures that the
>>> GPL's intended "freedoms" cannot be met, whilst claiming to be supportive
>>> of "free software".
>>>
>>> It's more plundering than pragmatism.
>>>
>>
>> You might list the "plus" sides of GPL3. That list would be extremely short.
>> Shorter even than the list of posts where DFS did not lie
>
> I think so too.
>
Did you really mean that?
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