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Chase Venters wrote: > I sympathize with Richard on his avoidance of "open-source". I don't > necessarily take the same view, but I understand that his big concern is that > the message he feels is important will be lost. I also think some of the > things I've heard from the "open-source" side are too extreme - take, for > instance, ESR's idea that we don't need the GPL license at all. That sounds > like a nice world he's living in, but I'm not sure we're all on the same > planet yet. ESR is a nutcase too. > The final GPLv3 may indeed go too far for many open-source supporters. But > then again, it is the FSF's license, and it should at least not surprise > anyone if they are more concerned with the ideals of the license rather than > current market realities. Market conditions change; ideals generally don't. As long as you can admit that FSF is divorced from reality... Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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