Not much of a discussion.. Yawn

- Linus made his claims about the SFC and the GPL.
- SFC stated that the claims were incorrect, because they promulgated what they view as Vizio's strawman argument.
- Ian Kelling (head of FSF), pointed out the authors of the GPL disagree with Linus's claims.
- a bunch of folks posted +1 or -1 posts, and then start tangents about some other random thing that was on their mind.
- No one constructively engages with anyone else beyond the initial rebuttals from Ian K & the SFC.

TLDR; Once again, we see a person who is really good at one thing (A) deciding that makes them experts at some thing (B) they have exactly zero experience practicing (or even pursuing the study of), and that they just *must* use the megaphone success gives them to talk about said thing B. They're smart, so there's a chance they might be on to something, and an intelligent discussion may help reveal that.

However, instead of an intelligent discussion, the Internet crowd just piggybacks on the megaphone to talk past each other about random stuff.

Which is all fine and good, but...

I mean, I appreciate the note about the progress in the SFC case because I donate (to both SFC & FSF), and I'm curious if I'm wasting my money..... but when LWN claims an "extended discussion", I'm kinda hoping for something more than what I'd find by joining Twitter and reading threads where Elon opines on effectively delivering food aid or health policy... Instead I wasted my time reading yet another typical Internet "discussion" looking for the actual discussion.

The discussion on _this_ article was little better, to be clear. Just annoyed that I wasted time reading through the comments on Linus's blog post looking for something interesting.