Torvalds Critiques of GPLv3 and FSF Refuted

j00bar writes "After Linus Torvalds' impassioned critiques of the second draft of GPLv3 and the community process the FSF has organized, Newsforge's Bruce Byfield discovered in conversations with the members of the GPLv3 committees that the committee members disagree; they believe not only has the FSF been responsive to the committees' feedback but also that the second draft includes some modifications in response to Torvalds' earlier criticisms." NewsForge and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

Re:The GPL needs to go

[Godji]

Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any
products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to
its source code released. This was simply unacceptable.

You sure have some really dumb lawyers. How much do you pay them?

Alas, I have no mod points

[NickFortune]

it's nevertheless Shakespeare who gets remembered in the history books.

Don't you mean BACON/Shakespear?

Sorry, couldn't resist :)

With that out of the way, I thought that was nicely put. I was an applications and systems coder, and that was exactly my experience.

Re:yeah but guess who owns the future?

[nacturation]

That they're hate and fear based, and when you let hate and fear dictate your principals, you end up hurting yourself and those you want to help.

And we all know that this leads directly to the dark side.
 

Re:yeah but guess who owns the future?

[Anonymous Coward]

The GNU project was trying to create a free version of Unix - the GNU system - and was going about it in a systematic fashion, one tool at the time. The kernel was left until last, and Linux simply happened to come at the right moment, when most of the system was already up and running but the kernel wasn't.

The Dodge Neon that's in my driveway is almost ready to start racing in Formula 1, I just need to get a bigger engine in it

Re:GNU project non-existent?

[unix_core]

"Theo da Raadt (of OpenBSD) has proposed writing a faster (in compile-time not run-time), more secure/strict compiler."

Well, I've proposed releasing Windows Vista under the GPL.