In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
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wrote
on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:34:43 -0500
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> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:20:55 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ____/ Linonut on Tuesday 22 January 2008 22:28 : \____
>>
>>> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>
>>>> The headline you picked for your post about Ed Burnette's suggestion to
>>>> Linus:
>>>>
>>>> [News] Ed Burnette Calls for Linus Torvalds to Embrace GPLv3
>>>>
>>>> And here is what Burnette actually wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ==== begin quote ====
>>>> Dear Linus,
>>>> Like you, Iâ??m pragmatic, not dogmatic. I believe software wants to be
>>>> used and shared, but licensing issues keep getting in the way. As an
>>>> industry, weâ??re making this way too hard on ourselves. Weâ??re wasting our
>>> Dude, clean up your character set!
>>>
>>>> <http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=512>
>>>>
>>>> Why do you keep lying in your headlines? Do you think people won't go
>>>> read the stories and catch you?
>>>
>>> Obviously not, Tim. So why do you then assume it is lie, rather than a
>>> mistake due to a too-quick reading?
>>
>> Yes, I read the first few paragraph and also remembered how he previously
>> defended GPLv3 against myths. I didn't read this carefully. Ed E-mailed me a
>> couple of times asking for a correction, which I'll make.
>
> No you didn't.
> Your automated program has more than few bugs in it.
> Probably because you wrote it.
And yet you trust Microsoft. Interesting dichotomy.
Is there a difference, apart from scale (Roy being a
one-man "team", Microsoft having hundreds of millions of
dollars to spend in development revenue)?
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