Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:38:52 01/11/06
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On January 11, 2006 at 14:02:51, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>On January 11, 2006 at 09:56:45, Albert Silver wrote:
Thanks for sharing the experiences. :-)
Albert
>
>>I saw this, and no doubt there will be many other articles. As many works here
>>fall under the GPL, I figured this was only slightly OT.
>>
>>http://news.com.com/Overhaul+of+GPL+set+for+public+release/2100-7344-6025310.html?part=dht&tag=nl.e703
>>
>>"A major revamp of the General Public License is scheduled for public release
>>next week, a move that's expected to kick off a long and vocal debate over the
>>key foundation of open-source programming.
>>
>>The Free Software Foundation will release and describe the first public draft of
>>version 3 of the document on Jan. 16, at the First International Conference on
>>GPLv3 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the organization said.
>>
>>FSF founder Richard Stallman released the current version 2 in 1991. Since then,
>>it's been used to govern Linux, Samba, MySQL and thousands of other open-source
>>projects. The new version is expected to address a host of technology issues
>>that have arisen in the last 15 years, including patent issues and software
>>running on a remote server.
>>
>>The GPL is a seminal work. It's not just a legal document, but also a manifesto
>>of the free software movement and its offshoot, the open-source movement."
>
>Albert - thanks for posting that. I didn't know the GPL had become as
>influential as it is. I'm really happy RMS may be putting more bite
>into it for those who would contest it but seek to benefit from it.
>
>In the 1970's, Stallman would come over to my place and I'd give him
>a couch for his trips to the Bay Area. A mutual collaboration
>(Emacs tutorial, still part of GNU Emacs) helped me get my first
>programming job. He had many unusual personal habits and was obviously
>vastly brilliant. For example, he had a sweet-tooth (more than most)
>and had to be driven to a particular ice cream shop to get it satiated.
>Doesn't seem to have affected him too much as he's made it into
>middle-age.
>
>Stallman really lives, breathes, and believes in community insofar as
>software is concerned. We need that kind of action to at least apply
>some counterforce on greed of the marketplace, patents, and the most
>extreme robber barrons.
>
>My favorite Stallman-derived-benefit is the GNU stuff I run under Windows
>2000 and XP on a couple of PC's, from www.cygwin.com for my
>programming/debugging environment. I find it a lot more convenient than the
>monsterous developer-unfriendly MS environment. Cygwin doesn't force
>me to give up the GUI integration and MS office environment by going to a
>non-PC workstation to run GNU/Linux or a traditional Unix/vendor OS with
>imperfect MS office clones. For me, it's the best of both worlds with the
>least pain.
>
>Go GPLv3!!!!
>
>Stuart
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