LinuxP2P: In what directions would you say P2P has to develop before it is accepted by content producers?

RMS: When publishers describe the works that they publish as "content", in effect referring to these works as mere filler, they ironically show how little they value and appreciate them as works of the intellect.

I do not wish to devalue works of authorship, so I decline to refer to them as "content". I also decline to refer to writers and musicians as "producers", because I do not want to treat music and writing as "products" (which implies a narrowly economic point of view).

With opposing camps in the open-source movement proceeding down completely different paths, a showdown looms. Linus Torvalds, father of the Linux operating system, already has objected to the provisions proposed for GPL3, stating flatly that he'll simply stick to terms of the old license for the Linux kernel even after the new version is issued sometime next year.

The widening split has industry leaders alarmed. Stallman's free-software utopians are far outnumbered by the more pragmatic open sourcers, but his camp is home to an incredible talent pool that could be lost to the software-developer community at large if Stallman digs in his heels.