"Karen Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was browsing oracle's website when I discovered a link to oracle's > new GNU/linux distro. > > http://edelivery.oracle.com/EPD/GetUserInfo/get_form?caller=LinuxWelcome > > It looks like Redhat is being squeezed from all sides. OpenSolaris on > one end, with Novell and MS on the other, and Oracle undercutting their > support pricing by basically rebranding Redhat's products and selling > it as their own. It looks like an organized effort by proprietary > vendors to basically cut the throat of Redhat. As we know, Redhat is a > major contributer to the linux kernel. > > Maybe now is the time for GNU/Hurd? The problem with the linux kernel > is that it is not going to be as free as software licensed under the > GPL 3. Linus has stated that the kernel will remain at GPL 2, which > is less free than the GPL 3 because of DRM and patents.
Correction: which is _more_ free than the GPL 3 because of DRM and patents. It is just that these particular freedoms can be used for creating nominally GPLed software where the freedom to modify has become a sham. GPL 3 is less free than GPL 2, with the end result that code licensed under it might retain freedom in more situations than under GPL 2. It is, like the GPL 2, a compromise and tradeoff. > Yet, the GPL 3 is very myopic license. It shows a lack of vision by > the FSF, maybe they are tiring or need new leadership. They are > fighting the previous wars and do not understand the next battle at > all. Well, Mr. Flatfish, now you are going fud again. The FSF is rather preparing for the future problems and people scoff at them because they don't see the same sort of problems. I wish the FSF would be wrong more often in the long run than they, unfortunately, turn out to be. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
