On 4/19/07, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4/19/07, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/19/07, A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > <so much> > > > >
Part III GPL v3 has been necessitated to deal with businesses trying to get cute with GPL v2, viz. TiVo and Microsoft / Novell. A side jab may also be intended for the future for Google. Why? Some of these people have been drinking freely from the fountain of F/OSS, but have not contributed back to it. Microsoft has actively tried to subvert the GPL to subjugate Linux developers and users alike. Thirdly, as the Free Software movement is a political / ideological movement espousing the idea of Freedom, it is opposed to measures such as DRM that aim to curtail basic rights enshrined in various Constitutions or evolving out of natural justice. It aims to make a statement by incorporating some controversial measures in v3. However, Linus Torvalds, in his sweet wisdom, did not fully appreciate the ideology, and has only started to be positive towards v3 very lately. One of his concerns that some of the copyright holders in the kernel under v2 (Job 38:11) are no longer traceable, so obtaining assent to a wholesale migration to v3 is nearly impossible, may have a good element of truth. That is where the dispute comes from. Regarding Hurd, do you for a moment believe that the hardware vendors that have never released or supported drivers for Linux will ever agree to an even more radical kernel? Further, as most OSS developers have focused on Linux, Hurd does not get much attention. Its day may however come yet. With this fond hope, I rest my case. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
