Groklaw: Enderle Uses the Word Grok but Doesn't Get the GPL

"Well, would Sunday be complete without a Rob Enderle article on Linux to have a laugh over with you? Of course not. So here you are, Mr. Enderle on whether IBM is a boon or a bane to Linux. Of course, he gets almost everything wrong about GNU/Linux, and quite a bit about IBM too, now that I think of it, but that is the fun of it, no? And since he uses the word Grok, we seem to be halfway there with him, so let's see if I can now pull him, albeit kicking and screaming, across the finish line. The piece he doesn't get is the GPL.

"He begins combatively, as is his wont..."

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