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The Linux Foundation: Not a Friend of Desktop Linux, the GPL, or Openness

posted by on Wednesday April 05 2017, @07:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the fork-the-linux-foundation dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

After stirring up a ruckus by using words like "restrictive" and "virus" to describe the GPL in a Linux.com article, the Linux Foundation responds by quietly removing the post from the website.

The Linux Foundation has no respect for FOSS. Nor does it seem care about any users of Linux who aren't connected with the enterprise. It's been that way since the beginning. It now appears that the Foundation also has little respect for the GPL...you know, Linux's license. Nor does it appear to be much of a believer in the notion of transparency.

[...] On March 23, the Linux Foundation posted an article on its website, Linux.com, by Greg Olson, the foundation's senior director open source consulting services. In the article, "Five Legal Risks For Companies Involved in Open Source Software Development," he wrote that "permissive licenses present little risk," while referring to the GPL and other copyleft licenses as "Restrictive Licenses" and "viral."

[...] While his points are accurate enough, and reflect what I've already written in this article, the terms he uses suggest that the foundation holds the GPL and other copyleft licenses in contempt.

Source: http://fossforce.com/2017/04/lin-desktop-linux-gpl-openness/

takyon: Archive of the Linux.com article. The original blog post currently says "Access Denied" and "You are not authorized to access this page."

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday April 05 2017, @08:08PM (2 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday April 05 2017, @08:08PM (#489316) Journal

    As far as I know, Linus Torvalds owns the trademark Linux. Maybe he should revoke the Linux Foundation's right to use it.

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  • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Wednesday April 05 2017, @08:49PM

    by bart9h (767) on Wednesday April 05 2017, @08:49PM (#489336)

    interesting... but will he have motivation to do that?

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Koen on Wednesday April 05 2017, @08:56PM

    by Koen (427) on Wednesday April 05 2017, @08:56PM (#489340)

    As far as I know, Linus Torvalds owns the trademark Linux.

    Correct.

    Maybe he should revoke the Linux Foundation's right to use it.

    Not very likely without further consequences: Linus Torvalds is an employee of the Linux foundation.

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