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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."
(Score: 0, Troll) by Hairyfeet on Thursday April 06 2017, @02:00AM (2 children)
First of all is this 1988? No? Then you really need to quit that lame "M$" shit that went out with DOS and makes you look like a twat. Second MSFT hasn't given a single fuck about Linux in better than half a decade, you can even have one of several distros loaded from MSFT on Azure if you wish.
Finally you ARE getting the EEE treatment but are too blind with MSFT hate to see the one about to pull a train on your ass isn't old toothless MSFT but the Google juggernaut [arstechnica.com] that has quietly banned GPL V3 from their products, cut funding for AOSP, and is locking more and more critical subsystems behind the playwall. At this rate by 2020 at the latest you can have all the Android source code you want, it will be about as useful as the source code for TiVo because all the parts you actually need to get it to run will either be black box proprietary firmware or behind the Playwall, neither of which you have any access to.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @06:47AM
Get a clue pal and stop spouting BS.
Micro$oft is making MUCH more money with it's patent racket on Android phones than its own miserable devices. And they recently joined Linux foundation. Micro$oft loves Linux.
It's you who's living in the 1980s.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @07:54AM
First of all is this 1988? No? Then you really need to quit that lame "M$" shit that went out with DOS and makes you look like a twat.
Because we are all supposed to hate Microsoft now?
Look, some of us are old enough to remember back when we actually LIKED Microsoft, when they made the one programming language that ran on all our computers: BASIC. And back then, string variables were written A$, B$, C$, M$, etc. Sure we could also use two-letter variables (e.g. AA$), but they didn't make the code more readable, so we only used them when we ran out of single letter variables.
38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
READY.