http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/08/22/1653214/FSF-Uses-Android-FUD-To-Push-GPLv3

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 21:00:07 CEST 2011


On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> ye f*****g gods, when will these people learn.
>
> yet another bullshit article from someone who doesn't understand that
> there are several different bits of source code required, under
> multiple disparate licenses, in order to create a device that has the
> word "android" associated with it.
>
> if anybody actually cares, can i possibly advocate that they get onto
> slashdot and refute what this guy's saying?  if i try it, i'll only go
> upside the guy's head and down the other side with a verbal equivalent
> of a baseball bat.

  "This is just one of many reasons why GPLv3 is better than GPLv2."

  This quote from the FSF doesn't help.  Treating a qualitative
statement as being quantitative leads to these sorts of discussions.
:-(

-- 
-- Thomas



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