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Linus Speaks His Mind on GPL Enforcement

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday September 04 2016, @12:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the it-is-usually-sugarcoated dept.

JaKe writes:

In the time leading up to the next Kernel Summit topics are presented and discussed beforehand on the Ksummit-discuss mailing list. There [CORE TOPIC] GPL defense issues was introduced. Even though Linus is not subscribed to this list he speaks his mind, bluntly. A good read.

I'm not aware of anybody but the lawyers and crazy people that were happy about how the BusyBox situation ended up. Please pipe up if you actually know differently. All it resulted in was a huge amount of bickering, and both individual and commercial developers and users fleeing in droves. Botht he original maintainer and the maintainer that started the lawsuits ended up publicly saying it was a disaster.

So I think the whole GPL enforcement issue is absolutely something that should be discussed, but it should be discussed with the working title.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @01:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @01:04PM (#397370)

    exactly! glad someone else recognized the obvious insidious scam that is going on in schools. Governments using stolen money to buy slaveware to teach your kids to be slaves, all while the parents (who were taught the same) think their poisoned kids are getting the latest tech education b/c they "got charged" for an ipad or a chromebook for little timmy and suzy. At least that's what's going on all over the US, anyways.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @01:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @01:07PM (#397372)

    Governments using stolen money to buy slaveware to teach your kids to be slaves

    Dude, you've spent too much time on the Internet. Your brain is fried

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 04 2016, @01:27PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 04 2016, @01:27PM (#397378) Homepage Journal

      Or, alternatively, you spent to much time in school. GP post is pretty insightful, actually.

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