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Purists and Pragmatists and Zealots, Oh My!
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| I didn’t make it to OSCON this year (thanks for everyone who voted for us for
| the CCA, by the way, even though we lost out again to Firebird) and I am
| quietly thankful for it, because it seems like the conference kicked off a
| new round of hyperbole and hypocrisy from the fauxpen source crowd and I’m
| going to try to stay out of it (instead of any kind of rational discussion,
| this round seems even more full of ad hominem attacks).
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http://blogs.opennms.org/?p=1038
Open source advocates still called zealots
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| We are no longer talking about something that is unproven, or risky. The open
| source model is a decade old. It has already saved enterprises, small
| businesses, and individuals literally billions of dollars. It has empowered
| programmers, it has built new fortunes. It’s not communism, but capitalism at
| its very best.
|
| Taking this good news to Washington so I, as a taxpayer, can join in the
| savings is celebration-worthy, not an excuse for snark.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4554
Recent:
Why the GNU GPL v3 Matters Even More
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| This is important not just because it shows that there's considerable vigour
| in the GNU GPL licence yet, but because version 3 addresses a particularly
| hot area at the moment: software patents. The increasing use of GPL v3, with
| its stronger, more developed response to that threat, is therefore very good
| news indeed.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-gnu-gpl-v3-matter-even-more.html
GPLv3 hits 50 percent adoption
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| In July 2007, version 3 of the GNU General Public License barely accounted
| for 164 projects. A year later, the number had climbed past 2,000 total
| projects. Today, as announced by Google open-source programs office manager
| Chris DiBona, the number of open-source projects licensed under GPLv3 is at
| least 56,000.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10294452-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
GPLv3/AGPLv3 Adoption: If It Happened Too Fast, I'd Be Worried
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| Since the release of GPLv3, technology pundits have been opining about how
| adoption is unlikely, usually citing Linux's still-GPLv2 status as (often
| their only) example. Even though I'm a pro-GPLv3 (and, specifically,
| pro-AGPLv3) advocate, I have never been troubled by slow adoption, as long as
| it remained on a linear upswing from release day onward (which it has).
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2008/nov/13/gplv3-agplv3-adoption/
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