The author Daniel Lyons is rather well known for his bias against open source software in general and Linux in particular. For much of the SCO vs The World cases he was constantly on the SCO side in his articles regardless of the evidence shown in court and SCOs constant changes in what exactly IBM has "done wrong". Consider his take (
Linux's Hit Men by Daniel Lyons) on the Linksys Router shipped with Linux as its OS. Lyons objected to Cisco being threatened with a lawsuit for not complying with the Linux License.
Given his known bias I would want to make sure of how much of what was said by Linus was accurately reported and what was left out. In any case Linus has made it clear in the past that his problem with the (draft versions) GPL V3 is that it limits what software under that license can be used for. The GPL V2 (including the variant Linux is under) does not include those limits.
Now as I dislike the way commercial EULAs limit my (legally defined) rights under copyright law and support the way the GPL V2 extends those rights I don't support the GPL V3 (draft version) for again restricting rights like a EULA.
Topic: Linus Torvalds discusses GPL3 (Read 1124 times)