Misc. bits.

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:03:27PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> First I trust everyone here knows that the Free
> Software Foundation has officially released the GNU
> Public Licence version 3. The GPL version 2 is the
> licence that most of the software a typical GNU/Linux
> system is released under. Provisions in the GPL 3 will
> make things ... interesting ... for a few companies,
> such as Microsoft, Novell, TiVo and Xandros (all who
> have in one way or another attempted to exploit
> loopholes in GPL 2, that are now closed in GPL 3).  

So we go from loopholes we know about to loopholes yet to be discovered.
It's just like upgrading from software with known bugs to software with
unknown bugs.  No wonder some people aren't sure about it. :)

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