A badly researched Yahoo News piece (
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070927...Y8U44wd.EjtBAF) recently characterized open source developers' reluctance to adopt the new GNU General Public License version 3 as creating "a rift in the open source community between idealists who believe all software should be free of charge and free to use, and pragmatists who want to see open source software make further inroads into commercial use." There are so many things wrong in that statement that I hardly know where to begin. Is it really so difficult to understand this stuff? Yes, there is a rift in the community -- if there is a single, cohesive, unanimous community at all -- but it's not for the reasons listed in this Yahoo story.
The real heart of the GPLv3 rift
The real heart of the GPLv3 rift
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