This sort of thing really annoys me

I was reading the comments for this story on OSNews about some alleged Linux Driver Copyright Violation. It made me quite annoyed on two levels – firstly, that a “news” site which aspires to have some degree of journalistic integrity jumped off the deep end by posting the link to the claim, and secondly that people who I’m fairly sure are knowledgeable software developers preferred to rant in public about second-hand information rather than go to the source and find out for sure.Misinformation, FUD and raised blood pressure…. sounds like just another day in the Free vs Open software battleground. I’m sick of all this licensing argument, it gets in the way of engineering software and solutions which people can use.