Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Jul 2007 16:12 UTC, submitted by shykid
Open Source infighting over the GPLv3 just turned nastier - in a post on the Linux kernel mailing list, Linus Torvalds effectively called the authors of the GPLv3 'hypocritical morons'. InformationWeek has reported on the issue: "Linux creator Linus Torvalds said the authors of a new software license expected to be used by thousands of open source programmers are a bunch of hypocrites and likened them to religious fanatics - the latest sign of a growing schism in the open source community between business-minded developers like Torvalds and free software purists."
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2005-10-01
If you buy a tivo you are still pretty much as "free" to do what you want with it. You can still mod it to use whatever software you want to disable the DRM etc. What GPL3 does is require tivo to tell you HOW to mod it as well as prevent it from having any meaningful DRM.
The end user isn't much more "free" if at all under the gpl3 and tivo, just more informed about how to mod the device. I guess you could claim that forcing a lack of DRM makes them more-free but in reality they would end up with a device thats less useful then it was with gpl2 less content to watch as amazon unbox wouldn't work with it anymore, and cable companies are not going to start broadcasting only unencrypted digital stations anytime soon (for the newer tivo v3 cable-card system)