Enforcing the GPL: kernel hackers join the fight
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Jun 2012 23:56 UTC, submitted by Modafinil
GNU, GPL, Open Source "The Samba Team and seven kernel hackers have come together with Software Freedom Conservancy to help efforts to ensure compliance with the GPL by those who implement Linux and other GPL software. Richard Hillesley talked to Bradley Kuhn of Software Freedom Conservancy, Jeremy Allison of Samba, and Matthew Garrett, who works in his spare time with the GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers."
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RE[4]: What a waste of time....
by Beta on Sun 3rd Jun 2012 15:38 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: What a waste of time.... "
Beta
Member since:
2005-07-06

Actually if you remember correctly, during the browser wars we went from.

http://img.tfd.com/cde/_MOSAIC.GIF

To

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_Explorer_5_on_Windows_98...

In a 5 years.

Because of the intense competition between NetScape and Microsoft.


That wasn’t really competition, IE was preinstalled…

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zima Member since:
2005-07-06

It still is preinstalled - are you saying there's no competition now?
(and, back then, IE was simply the better browser...)

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