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10/12/2004: "Could they be any more obvious?"

Check this out, Follow this thread, where someone named Jeff V. Merkey bad mouths the GPL and then offers them $50,000 for a snapshot of the kernel, with permission to dump the GPL and slap a BSD license on it instead/

Say what?

This, my friends, is why ESR's "open source" movement is a dangerous and foul abortion. We didn't need a plethora of new licenses. We had three that worked, MIT/X, GPL and LGPL. We didn't need a fourth, but thats what our "friend" Eric gave us, when he allowed Netscape to invent a new license, equate it with linux, and then "blessed" it with an organization that he controlled.

Linux under the BSD license would suffer a quick death, to be sure.

ESR's has sold-out the Free Software community to corporate rule. His agenda is entirely pro-corporate, and aims to mainstream Copyleft and then massage it into something else.

I'm fine with any software author using the license of her choosing. What pisses me off is that Erik and his band of merry pranksters usurped Free Software and pasted any goo they wanted to the side, and then fought a marketing campaign to declare it "better".

If nothing else remember this: GPL is Freedom, OSI is Marketing.