Agreed ^ 2
>>No. _I_ will feel exploited if a version of linux kernel will be put on a
>>different license that GPL. The problem here is that if you change license
>>and give IBM the way of have an IBM/Linux kernel, I can predict that soon
>>we will have two different kernel trees: GNU/Linux and IBM/Linux.
>>No thanks. If they want to protect their patents, they have to deal with
>>GPL in some way, nothing more and nothing less.
>>And about IBM releasing sources of their commercial software in exchange,
>>I am not convinced that this will be a great deal.
>
>Agreed!
Agreed ^ 3
>>PS: and I don't think Linux kernel is going to change its license only to
>> suit IBM needs. This will become a precedent that hardly Linux
>> developers will want to establish. And then what ? M$ asks us to give
>> them Linux sources under a modified license ? How can you deny this ?
>> For IBM you've done it and for M$ no ? Are you trying to boicott M$
>> market ? Do you want to have something to do with M$ lawyers ? (M$ is
>> only an example here of course ... it can well be any big company out
>> there)
>
>Agreedddd!!
>
>Andrea Arcangeli
Agreed ^ 4
IBM keep Your FAT HANDS away from Linux !!!!
Davide Libenzi.
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