RE: [tlug] Re: [CoLoCo] RESPECT MICROSOFT

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen J. Turnbull
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 10:13 AM

> 
> 
> David L. Willson writes:
> 
>  > (Thank you, FSF, for the GPLv3).
> 
> What, exactly, is to be thankful for in the GPLv3?  AFAICT, compared
> to GPLv2, there's a lot of anti-DRM and anti-patent posturing, but
> it's sound and fury signifying nothing, except that corporate would-be
> redistributers of GPL software are put at significant risk and cost of
> verifying that their organization doesn't have any relevant patent
> licenses.  The patent license is a mess, and the clauses that tell the
> court "if it's illegal to do what the license says, do it anyway" are
> a joke.

It is a monstrosity, and a mockery, and the FSF's staunch
encouragement for people to start changing over to it from
the GPLv2 has led a number of people to go from being FSF
constituents, to being OSS types.

I know that isn't a big jump in most people's eyes, but to
some of the zealots[1], that is heresy. :P


--
Ken


[1] I am not saying that all FSF people are zealots, simply
that there are zealots among them.  You don't get near as
many zealot types on the Open Source side of the house as you
do on the Free Software side. :P

Unfortunately, it was their voices that were loudest when the
GPLv3 was being forged.  Yes, I do have a right to complain,
I did "vote" this time.  I voiced my opinion in official
channels, not just soapbox ranting. ^^;;

A lot of people did.