COMRADES! GPLv3 is here!

deleted because original post was rather stupid, thanks to paulf for pointing that out.

I agree. How dare someone accuse those who seek to restore the balance that copyright is supposed to protect a communist.

This article was intended to be a farce. If you check out his website you will see that he is an active open-source developer. http://paulfurberconsulting.com

see first post in thread.

Yeah, it was almost convincing until I read the posts on the story's site.

Jokes are about timing and reference. This one provided no reference but just dragged on and on.

E.g.:

Ok, so there was this chicken, that's a fairly large, domesticated bird commonly raised for using its eggs for food or for raising more chickens or for cutting up and cooking, the chicken, not the egg, but anyway, this chicken was on one side of a road, that is if you consider the road, which is commonly a path used for vehicular traffic and may be paved with some substance harder than the ground around it or not, if you consider that road as a dividing line of the ground over which it passed, then the chicken was on one side of that line and decided to cross over the road to the ground that was on the other side of the line represented by the road. Now, why did the chicken cross the road?

Hey, where'd everybody go?

grouch - but I thought that's the way you tell a joke.

I rest my case.

(I swear I heard a 'ba-da-boom' right after your line, Herschel!)

grouch - so you really like my style, huh?

Put your hat back on; I don't have any quarters.

Incinerator,

The whole point of satirical news items in English is that they say one thing and mean the opposite. You could have saved yourself a lot of space by just pointing out that every single point in the article is nonsense - as I intended. You claim that you knew all along that it was supposed to be satirical but you've taken great care to provide a rebuttal of each of its nonsensical points.

As we say in English: "Whoosh!"

YHBT. YHL. HAND.