[ELUG] Will Stallman Kill the "Linux Revolution?"

[romero]

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| Will Stallman Kill the "Linux Revolution?"                         |
|   from the penguin-vs-penguin dept.                                |
|   posted by Zonk on Sunday October 22, @20:21 (GNU is Not Unix)    |
|   http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/22/2214203        |
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frdmfghtr writes "The October 30 issue of Forbes Magazine has an article
speculating that [0]Richard Stallman's efforts to rewrite the GPL could
threaten to 'tear it apart.' The article describes how the GPLv3 is
expected to be incompatible with the GPLv2, causing trouble for Linux
vendors such as Novell and Red Hat. The article wraps it up: 'And a big
loser, eventually, could be Stallman himself. If he relents now, he
likely would be branded a sellout by his hard-core followers, who might
abandon him. If he stands his ground, customers and tech firms may suffer
for a few years but ultimately could find a way to work around him.
Either way, Stallman risks becoming irrelevant, a strange footnote in the
history of computing: a radical hacker who went on a kamikaze mission
against his own program and went down in flames, albeit after causing
great turmoil for the people around him.'"

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Links:
    0. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html


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