[CoLoCo] [tlug] Re: RESPECT MICROSOFT

[David L. Willson]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:13:11 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote
> David L. Willson writes:
> 
>  > (Thank you, FSF, for the GPLv3).
> 
> What, exactly, is to be thankful for in the GPLv3?  AFAICT, compared
> to GPLv2, there's a lot of anti-DRM and anti-patent posturing, but
> it's sound and fury signifying nothing, except that corporate would-be
> redistributers of GPL software are put at significant risk and cost of
> verifying that their organization doesn't have any relevant patent
> licenses.  The patent license is a mess, and the clauses that tell the
> court "if it's illegal to do what the license says, do it anyway" are
> a joke.
> 

The best men I know would say that only fools and idiots come to the table with problems
and no proposed solutions thereto.  Since I don't know you, I'll assume this is an
oversight, and that you had a better idea than the GPLv3 which we have yet to hear.  Or
that you believe that there was no problem for the GPLv3 to solve, in which case I would
like to hear your opinions on free software and software patent portfolio buildup and
competition through litigation and/or the threat of litigation.

I do not use, recommend, or study products made by companies that try to imprison free
software or by their complicity with such companies, allow it to be imprisoned.  If a
man is big-hearted enough to create a quality product, like Samba for instance, and free
that product, then I will defend his right, as the creator, to insure that his product
remains free.

David L. Willson
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