Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2016/09/02/ksummit-discuss.html

There are plenty of mailing list threads to read, and I don’t actually
recommend the one that I’m talking about. I think it went on too long, was
far too “ad hominem” rather than real policy. Somewhere
beneath the surface there was a policy discussion being shouted down; if
you look close, you can find find it underneath.

As he always does, Jon Corbet did an excellent
job finding
the real policy details in the “GPL defence” ksummit-discuss
thread, and telling us all about it. I am very hard on tech
journalism, but when it comes to reporting on Linux specifically, Jon and
his colleagues at lwn.net have been, for nearly two decades, always been
real, detailed, and balanced (and not in the Fox News way)
tech journalism.

The main reason I made this blog post about it, though, is that I actually
spent as much time on a few of my posts on the list as I would on any blog
post, and I thought readers of my blog might want the content here. So I
link to
two
posts
in the thread that I encourage you to read. I also encourage you to read
these
two
posts
that my boss at my day job, Karen Sandler, made, which I think are very good
as well.

And, to quote the fictional Forrest Gump: That’s all I have to say
about that.