Is The New GPL a Target?
Well. It's here.
This afternoon, right on schedule, the Free Software Foundation released Version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
The language is complex, which some are already complaining about. Novell seems to have "gotten off," which others will complain about. Still others are looking at this license and the pressure Microsoft is trying to put on the community with its patent protection racket and are predicting doom and gloom in the form of a civil war.
This last amuses me to no end. Imagine, the Linux, open source, and free software communities--gasp!--arguing with each other. Why, whatever will we do?
If it is the goal of Microsoft to drive a wedge in the Community, my sincere advice to them is: take a number. We have a bazillion arguments to hash out alongside this one.
One thing is bothering me, though. Does anyone else wonder why Microsoft was in such an awful hurry to line up partnership deals with Linux vendors before the final release of GPL 3?
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