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Comment Waiting for GPL V4 (Score 2, Insightful) 382

by asscroft on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @12:25AM (#20752025) Attached to: Survey Says GPLv3 Is Shunned

It doesn't seem fair to attack Microsoft with GPL V3 without also going after Google. Google gets to use GPL software without ever having to release source because they're not selling software, they're selling services. If Microsoft did that GPL V4 would come out faster than you can say Free Software.

The Plot To Hijack Your Hard Drive 181

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 07, 2006 @02:55PM from the avast-me-harties-pop-ups-rollin-in-from-the-south dept.

An anonymous reader writes Business Week Online examines the business practices of spammers and pop-up advertisers, using much-maligned Direct Revenue as an example case. The article discusses the history of the company, their rocky road through good and bad times, and what they're willing to to get your eyes on their ads." From the article: "Among Direct Revenue's alumni, pride over technical cunning mingles with regret for exasperating so many computer users. After waffling on the issue during a long interview, one former Dark Arts wizard sighs and sums up his version of the company credo with an elegiac observation by abolitionist Frederick Douglass: 'Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.'"

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