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Milking the GNU: "In an otherwise great post about the GPL and its goals, Bradley Kuhn writes something that strikes me as a typical example of open-source political correctness that ultimately tarnishes the credibility of the community..."

Fighting against a certain open source political correctness in the community

Here are ten reasons to switch to Linux if you are looking for an alternative. Linux is open-source, which means that every application offers the source code for modification and improvement, legally.

Most software is licensed under the GNU GPL (General Public License), which allows you to study, modify and even sell software using this license.

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 29th Jun 2007 23:09 UTC, submitted by thebluesgnr The FSF today released version 3 of the GNU GPL , the popular free software license.

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 29th Jun 2007 23:09 UTC, submitted by thebluesgnr The FSF today released version 3 of the GNU GPL , the popular free software license.

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Mar 2008 21:30 UTC, submitted by ohxten " Whitix is a 32-bit operating system for the Intel and AMD range of processors, licensed under the GNU GPL.

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Mar 2008 21:30 UTC, submitted by ohxten " Whitix is a 32-bit operating system for the Intel and AMD range of processors, licensed under the GNU GPL.

As anyone who has anything to do with [non-Windows] software development knows, GNU’s definition of “free” is “free as in freedom and free as in beer.” But what dictionary did the GPL author(s) use when looking up a definition for “freedom”?

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Jan 2008 23:18 UTC Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, still has no plans to license the Linux kernel under version three of the GNU GPL anytime soon.

By Nathan Willis on March 20, 2008 Share Comments A year has passed since Linden Lab , maker of the popular 3-D virtual world Second Life , released the source code to its Second Life viewer under the GNU GPL.