Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Jul 2007 11:05 UTC, submitted by WillM
Microsoft cleared the air July 5 on its obligations to GNU General Public License Version 3 support, declaring it will not provide support or updates for GPLv3 under the deal it penned in November with Novell to administer certificates for the Linux distribution. Microsoft also said July 5 that its agreement with Novell, as well as those with Linux rivals Xandros and Linspire, were unaffected by the release June 29 of GPLv3 by the Free Software Foundation.
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RE[3]: well Microsoft..
by Milo_Hoffman on Fri 6th Jul 2007 13:09
in reply to "RE[2]: well Microsoft.."
Member since:2005-07-06
> I would wonder why key figures supporting GPL are
> not making their livings out of GPL projects
You have no idea what your talking about. Most "key" figures in the open source world make their whole living doing something related to open source. Most are employed by companies to represent them in their open source projects. 70% of the Linux kernel developers work for Redhat, IBM, Novell, and others.
Many many many others make their living totally off of open source such as Larry Wall (inventor of PERL), etc.
Sounds like your just a clueless newbie programmer to me who somehow feels that your visual basic job is threatened by open source.
RE[4]: well Microsoft..
by Spellcheck on Fri 6th Jul 2007 22:27
in reply to "RE[3]: well Microsoft.."
Member since:
2005-07-06
Agreed. We had enough of this GPL crazyness and it's slowing real innovation and improvements.
Plus, it's endangering the will of people to release code or applications for others to benefit, expecially when dealing with economics reasons like people or companies which can't afford high software expenses.
If I was in GPL fans' shoes, I would wonder why key figures supporting GPL are not making their livings out of GPL projects but they're more than satisfied of getting a normal standard wage.
Edited 2007-07-06 13:03