Linux Creator Calls GPLv3 Authors 'Hypocrites' As Open Source Debate Turns NastyLinux Creator Calls GPLv3 Authors 'Hypocrites' As Open Source Debate Turns Nasty

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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