Everything we build will be built in the open source community, it will be built with a community of partners around us and, with all deference to my friends from the Linux world, under a coherent license that we can draft, ideally in concert with Linus, so we end up with a common platform and a common opportunity.
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anna
1 year 15 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago
Am I the only person who finds
Am I the only person who finds this very disturbing?
Jimbob
1 year 15 weeks 13 hours 15 min ago
I hope Sun does go GPLv3. If they
I hope Sun does go GPLv3. If they don't, that idiot Torvalds (as clever as he is at developing) will make the stupid decision to stick with GPLv2 and tivoization will run rampant. That'll be it: DRM'd Linux hardware will become the norm.
merc
1 year 15 weeks 11 hours 37 min ago
I wouldn't call Torvalds an "idiot",
I wouldn't call Torvalds an "idiot", really...
He has been wrong before, but he does have his reasons to dislike GPLv3 - and a lot of them are very valid. Did you read his argument against GPLv3?
mattflaschen
1 year 15 weeks 8 hours 59 min ago
"and a lot of them are very valid"
"and a lot of them are very valid" He pointed out some unintended problems with earlier drafts that have been corrected. His remaining objections are just a result of his different philosophy. For instance, he doesn't believe users deserve the right to modify software on their own hardware.
merc
1 year 15 weeks 8 hours 34 min ago
Hummmm... I *think* Linus' point
Hummmm...
I *think* Linus' point of view is this: TiVO releases the source code. If you modify the source code, then you can't run it on TiVO machines anymore. However, nobody is stopping you from creating MattTiVO machines, manufacture them, and sell them.
I can see both sides of the story, really. Linus doesn't mind if hardware is written so that it won't run anything but a "certified" version of the software. Stallman does.
They both have good arguments... which is frustrating at times :-D