Elf Sternberg

One fairly computer-literate friend I know, college-educated and about to graduate in a computer-related field in fact, still believes the FUD that the GPL is so viral that you can't write code in a GPLed editor or compile it with a GPLed compiler without the GPL applying to that code. They believe this because one of their friends at the school that was taking law classes said so, basically, and believe it so strongly they've gotten a non-GPA-affecting drop from classes when they were not able to find non-GPL tools to work with to do the class homework with.

There's hundreds of attacks on the Linux computing front that are being attacked by 'common sense' approaches from the other side, and unfortunately many of them are sticking far better than you might think.