[BadVista Advocate] Gpl3 and Linspire

[xaos]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 00:39 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> member greenarrow1 wrote:
> > I cannot figure out why Kevin from Linspire decided to partner up with
> > Microsoft mainly because he was one of the biggest protesters about
> > the Novell/MS deal.
> 
> Really?  Do you have a source for this?

This letter would seem to contradict his current stance.

http://www.linspire.com/linspire_letter_archives.php?id=36

I understand people change... money has a grand influence in a
capitalist society.

Tom

> 
> > I am trying to figure out why he turned and was
> > wondering, does he know something about Gpl3 I do not?  The way I read
> > the final draft Linspire would be doomed in the future for signing a
> > deal with MS but after reading Kevin's remarks he does not think so.
> 
> As far as I can tell, you're right.  They're basically screwed unless
> they back out of the deal.  No need to speculate though.  GPLv3 is in 11
> days, and I predict a lot of programs will jump right away (not to
> mention GNU).  It won't be long before GPLv3 updates are needed to
> address critical security vulnerabilities, and we'll see what happens.
> 
> Matthew Flaschen
> 
> 
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