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Ban the GNU GPL!
posted by mpawlo on Wednesday October 23, @04:38PM
from the ban-stupidity dept.
Open Source A couple of American democrats in Congress has issued a letter in which they urge governmental institutions and companies not to use computer programs licensed under the GNU GPL. They think GNU GPL leads to flaws in security and makes the computer programs unfeasible for commercial uses.

Read the letter.

Free Software Foundation has issued an outraged press release.

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    Rep. Tom Davis (Score:1)
    by bwtaylor on Thursday October 24, @03:30PM (#432)
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    Evidently the anti-GPL statements are the work *only* of Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash, because his wrapper to the letter changed it's meaning. According to this story [nwsource.com] Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va. was not very happy about having his meaning spun into something he didn't agree with.

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