Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The Free Software Foundation is looking to switch to the GPLv3 by March next year at the latest. The changes are being made because there are loopholes in GPLv2 which people are getting around.
To quote a posting by Pamela Jones, who runs the Gorklaw website: "GPLv2 is not compatible with the Apache license (sic). It doesn't cover Bitstream. It is ambiguous about web downloads. It allows Tivo to forbid modification. It has no patent protection clause. It isn't internationally useful everywhere, due to not matching the terms of art used elsewhere. It has no DMCA workaround or solution. It is silent about DRM."
But these concerns do not bother Torvalds who has always looked at his baby as an engineering project, one which aims to build good software. But like many great minds, he has a very direct and simple way of looking at things too.
And as the days tick away to March 2007, the chances are increasing that when GPLv3 is released, there will be a very real split between the free and open source software movements. There have always been differences but never as marked as they will be. Expect Richard Stallman to respond to Torvalds statements soon.
David Bass
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