Stallman Absolves Novell

A few days ago we linked the transcript of Richard Stallman's talk at the Tokyo GPLv3 meeting . Now bubulubugoth writes to point us to an analysis of what Stallman said in Tokyo. In particular, these quotes: "Microsoft has not given Novell a patent license, and thus, section 7 of the GPL version 2 does not come into play. Instead, Microsoft offered a patent license that is rather limited to Novell's customers alone." And, apparently resolving the conundrum of whether GPLv2 and GPLv3 licenses can be commingled: "There's no difficulty in having some programs in the system under GPL2 and other programs under GPL3."

Re:Shame on you Slashdot..

[MarkByers]

why would you post a link to anything that contained statements like this?

I'm guessing it's for the hits. Hits = advertising dollars. Controversial articles are often more popular.

Or maybe they just didn't read the article.

Re:Shame on you Slashdot..

[Otter]

Between this and "Clinton Prosecutor Now Targeting Free Speech", they're really off to a quick start for a Sunday morning, no?

Say what?

[Lavene]

Reading the headline I almost instinctivly looked out of the window to see if there were any pigs or penguins flying by... but then I remembered that I was reading /.

Mod parent up

[matt me]

We now need a new tag, shittyjournalism.

Move along!

[albertost]

DELETE FROM articles WHERE date = 06/12/02 AND id = 2259227;