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biased viewpoint
biased viewpoint
Posted Feb 6, 2006 19:28 UTC (Mon) by atai (subscriber, #10977)Parent article: Open Source's New Frontiers (Business Week)
The article on software patents is very biased against RMS. The article even quoted someone from the Association for Competitive Technology, a Microsoft front set up originally for the antitrust trial, questioning whether the GPLv3 will be adapted widely. In reality, the GPLv3's provisions on patents are not as strong as some already proposed in other free software/open source licenses and RMS clearly is not looking for a nuclear war, as the article suggests (but provides the weapons necessary for the free software community to fight one if the proprietary software interests want to attack using software patents).
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biased viewpoint
Posted Feb 6, 2006 22:37 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Ya.. The stated objective of the anti-DRM licensing is to make sure that a company can't force end users to use specific versions of GPL'd software thusly negating the point of having it free software.
It doesn't have anything to do with DRM with the likes of Apple's Itunes or anti-piracy prevention for propriatory software.