Showing posts with label GPL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GPL. Show all posts

Monday, April 23, 2007

Virtual Tivoization?

"Our virtualization features can also encapsulate components that are under the GPL open-source license protecting valuable company IP from the obligation to publish source code"
-- Steve Subar, CEO and Co-Founder of Open Kernel Lab. "Commercial version of NICTA open source L4 real time kernel released," Embedded.com, 17 April 2007.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

The New Republic

"What we have today is government of the people, by the flunkies, for the corporations."
-- Richard Stallman on Trusted Computing (what he called 'Treacherous Computing'), "GPLv3 - Transcript of Richard Stallman from the fifth international GPLv3 conference, Tokyo, Japan"

Saturday, March 31, 2007

(Ouch! That hurts! (Parenthetical comment notwithstanding))

(lawyers are whores - they are paid to argue for their client, not for the law)
-- Linus Torvalds in the Linux Kernel Mailing List "Re:GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders".

Holy War Version III

I literally feel that we do not - as software developers - have the moral right to enforce our rules on hardware manufacturers. We are not crusaders, trying to force people to bow to our superior God. We are trying to show others that co-operation and openness works better.
-- Linus Torvalds in the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) "Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders".