[Discuss] Mom! Linus is kicking me!

[B. E. Irwin]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2007-07-13 20:36-0700 pw wrote:
>
>> Linus Torvalds Calls GPLv3 authors 'hypocrites'.
>> 
>> http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/07/linux_creator_c.html
>> 
>> Can't we all just get along!
>
> Don't believe all the flame-bait you read at information week.  Wish I
> hadn't given them the hit.  If you look at the original post
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/20/223) the comments by Linus are fairly
> innocuous although IMO unclearly argued.

Here's an article that shows how misleading the orginal InformationWeek
(maybe this rag should be called MisleadingWeek instead!) article is:

Misleading InformationWeek GPLv3 article
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/misleading_informationweek_gplv3_article
.

Barbara

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