Version 2 has now been running for nearly 15 years without substantial modification. It GPL 2 has successfully been used to go from a world in which free software was a very marginal community to one in which everyone, everywhere is aware of it.
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Patents which conserve an edge in a rapidly changing market, may have uses for companies such as IBM. But patents which inhibit your customer's ability to achieve their own goals or to contribute to jointly build technology or community build technology are not useful to a company such as IBM wishes to be.Eben Moglen
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The idea that we are anti-capitalist is a stupid idea. Free software is not anti-capitalist. Capitalism now makes a great deal of money out of free software and it voluntarily pays us money to make, improve and lawyer for it.
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