Will Stallman Kill the "Linux Revolution?" 741
frdmfghtr writes "The October 30 issue of Forbes Magazine has an article speculating that Richard Stallman's efforts to rewrite the GPL could threaten to 'tear it apart.' The article describes how the GPLv3 is expected to be incompatible with the GPLv2, causing trouble for Linux vendors such as Novell and Red Hat. The article wraps it up: 'And a big loser, eventually, could be Stallman himself. If he relents now, he likely would be branded a sellout by his hard-core followers, who might abandon him. If he stands his ground, customers and tech firms may suffer for a few years but ultimately could find a way to work around him. Either way, Stallman risks becoming irrelevant, a strange footnote in the history of computing: a radical hacker who went on a kamikaze mission against his own program and went down in flames, albeit after causing great turmoil for the people around him.'"
No more so than the MPL (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What a load of sensationalist FUD! (Score:5, Funny)
You mean, because you cannot pirate a GPL3ed work, and we need pirates to prevent global warming?
Re:What a load of sensationalist FUD! (Score:1, Funny)
Yes we do [venganza.org]
Ramen (Score:3, Funny)
Arrrrrrr. (Just doing my bit to fight global warming
Re:What a load of sensationalist FUD! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:How is Theo a loonie? (Score:1, Funny)
You should've used emacs... (Score:5, Funny)
You should've used emacs.
This got an entire article? (Score:3, Funny)
Will Stallman Kill the "Linux Revolution?"
Re:Slightly OT: Why isn't the language "more clear (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Slightly OT: Why isn't the language "more clear (Score:3, Funny)
Specificity for such things is always hard to pin down.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1994/Ukpga_199400
Here the state tries to define rave music in order to outlaw it
63.--(1) This section applies to a gathering on land in the open air of 100 or more persons (whether or not trespassers) at which amplified music is played during the night (with or without intermissions) and is such as, by reason of its loudness and duration and the time at which it is played, is likely to cause serious distress to the inhabitants of the locality; and for this purpose--
(a) such a gathering continues during intermissions in the music and, where the gathering extends over several days, throughout the period during which amplified music is played at night (with or without intermissions); and
(b) "music" includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.
Re:Why isn't the ideas"more clear (Score:1, Funny)
Actually, God wrote the source code. The compilers sucked and the implementations were buggy. It has something to do with that Free_Will feature that allows the subroutines to rewrite their own code.
Mankind sucks as a developer enviroment. That's why He had to choose one people as an independent partition to test out the code before installing it and the 2.0 rev on the whole system with Jesus_Christ. Unfortunately all the damn programs running in multitask conflicted with each other on task priorities and implementation rules and messed it up again.
Re:Slightly OT: Why isn't the language "more clear (Score:3, Funny)