Comments on: Linus Torvalds Has No “Hugely Strong Opinion” on Cross-licensing Deals (Updated) http://techrights.org/2007/08/16/linus-on-cross-licensing-deals/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 03 Jan 2017 04:31:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2007/08/16/linus-on-cross-licensing-deals/comment-page-2/#comment-1770 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:04:15 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/16/linus-on-cross-licensing-deals/#comment-1770 Stephen, based on things that he says in the mailing lists, not only me but some people whom I talk to compare him to Joerg Schilling. One could also argue that he learned his lesson from the GNOME incident, even though he repeated it some months ago.

]]> By: Stephen http://techrights.org/2007/08/16/linus-on-cross-licensing-deals/comment-page-1/#comment-1769 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:32:53 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/16/linus-on-cross-licensing-deals/#comment-1769 It makes no sense to try to “know the mind” of someone like Linus (or anyone, for that matter). If he has an opinion that he wants to express he’ll surely do it as he has done before (i.e, use KDE, not Gnome).

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2007/08/16/linus-on-cross-licensing-deals/comment-page-1/#comment-1768 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:12:38 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/16/linus-on-cross-licensing-deals/#comment-1768 Spot on, akf. I couldn’t think of a good word to use (English is my second language), so I put a better description in the brackets. In retrospect, it ought to have said something like “proprietarised”, not “commercialised”. It’s the cost of writing quickly — sloppiness and ambiguities.

]]> By: akf http://techrights.org/2007/08/16/linus-on-cross-licensing-deals/comment-page-1/#comment-1767 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:06:49 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/16/linus-on-cross-licensing-deals/#comment-1767 Free Software is not against commercialisation.
The danger for Free Software is becoming unfree or becoming dependent on unfree software.

I know you mean the right thing, but please be more careful with your wording.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2007/08/16/linus-on-cross-licensing-deals/comment-page-1/#comment-1766 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:03:54 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/16/linus-on-cross-licensing-deals/#comment-1766 It is said to be new. Longhorn was renamed Server 2008 about a month ago though. Maybe the interviewer was not aware of this.

]]> By: ohmygod http://techrights.org/2007/08/16/linus-on-cross-licensing-deals/comment-page-1/#comment-1765 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:58:25 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/16/linus-on-cross-licensing-deals/#comment-1765 Longhorn? How old this interview actually is?

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