Community vs. Corporate Linux: The Coming Divide

Aug 14, 2007, 00:00 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Matt Hartley)

[ Thanks to Matt D. for this link. ]

"There is in fact a coming divide that will hit the Linux community like a freight train. The battle lines have already been drawn, and companies that support Linux, such as Canonical, will eventually find themselves fiercely pitted against companies like Linspire, who only a short time ago, entered into an agreement of cooperation.

"A clash between the different versions of the GPL have already begun to show their roots , and luckily, thus far, has been pretty much transparent. What I want to know is how all of this is going to go down when it comes time for the enforcement of such things..."

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