Is it trying a divide-and-conquer strategy against open source software users and their new license?By John Bringardner
Open source zealots apply their innovative philosophy to their legal work, not just their software. The General Public License 3 is the first new version of the free software license governing Linux and many other projects since 1991. Its release on July 1 marks the culmination of an 18 months?long collaborative drafting process, involving hackers, corporate IP attorneys, and anyone else with an Internet connection and an agenda. Anti?software patent activist Richard Stallman, creator of the Free Software Foundation, had a hand in the draft, as did the suits at patent-hoarding International Business Machines Corp. But in the end, a force that didn’t even take part in the draft wound up being an influential player: Microsoft Corp.
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