Linux creator Linus Torvalds said the authors of a new software license expected to be used by thousands of open source programmers are a bunch of hypocrites and likened them to religious fanatics -- the latest sign of a growing schism in the open source community between business-minded developers like Torvalds and free software purists.

Paul McDougall, Editor At Large, InformationWeek

July 10, 2007

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Paul McDougall is a former editor for InformationWeek.

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