GPLv3 Emerges After Long Debate, Opposition Muted
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| "The Free Software Foundation listened to people outside its normal
| support base. The GPL 3 is better than the GPL 2," said Mark Radcliffe,
| an intellectual property attorney with DLA Piper's Silicon Valley
| office, during the Linux Foundation Summit.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=200001747
GPLv3 author: Business needs free software
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| Free Software Foundation (FSF) leader Richard Stallman said at the launch of
| the group's new version 3 of the General Public License (GPLv3) that
| businesses are "foolish" not to adopt nonproprietary technologies as he
| contends that the continued use of paid products limits companies' innovation
| and weakens security of their IT operations.
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| For example, he said that Microsoft's process of removing support for
| various computing devices and applications in its products forces
| businesses into a never-ending cycle of "forced upgrades," a system
| he said should be made illegal.
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| In another sense, onboard functions like Vista's remote software
| upgrade feature allow Microsoft to essentially take control and
| manipulate end-users' computers whenever they feel like it.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070630/tc_infoworld/89867
Stallman Urges Users to Upgrade to GPLv3
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| Overall, MontaVista which develops Linux for the embedded market, isn't
| worried about the GPL version 3.
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| [...]
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| "Our customers are used to working with licenses that are much more
| restrictive than the GPL," Wacha said. "In my opinion, typical
| proprietary licenses are much more restrictive in pretty much all
| instances than the GPL."
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3686486
iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them
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| Now, from China to India, from Venezuela to Brazil, from Tivos to cell
| phones: Free software is everywhere and it is slowly building a
| worldwide movement of users demanding that they have control over
| the computers and electronic devices they own.
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http://www.fsf.org/iphone-gplv3
Many myths debunked in this series:
http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/26/gpl-v3-the-qa-part-1-the-license/
http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/26/gpl-v3-the-qa-part-2-developers/
http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/28/gpl-v3-the-qa-part-3-companies/
http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/28/gpl-v3-the-qa-part-4-odds-and-ends/
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