June 28th, 2007
GPL v3 due Friday -- don't trip over the lawyers at the Apple Store
Talk about timing … just as the iPhone hysteria whips into a physical location frenzy near you, a probably more significant development will unfold on Friday.
Reports have it that the postponed but widely anticipated latest GLP open source license, version 3, will become available.
Red Hat had some comments on it.
So all those lawyers at Microsoft can kill two birds with one off-campus trip. They can buy their Apple iPhone (they can afford one), connect to their iTunes on their Windows laptops, set it up on WiFi and then listen and watch the video stream of the GPLv3 launch on the pristine iPhone screen — all while still in their cars outside the Apple Store in Bellevue.
Can’t do that with a SUSE Linux server, can you?
Sweet.
Dana Gardner is principal analyst of Interarbor Solutions. For disclosures on Dana's industry affiliations, click here or to view his full profile click here.
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