On 01/18/2012 07:30 AM, Matt Shaver wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:50:41 +1100 > Erik Christiansen<dva...@internode.on.net> wrote: > >> I'm only having trouble pretending that their case has any >> legitimacy. > > It's not legitimate. Unfortunately, many recent activities originating > in the U.S. are governed by a "might makes right" attitude rather than > one of fairness, morality, or even basic human decency. For this I can
That's not recent but an ongoing human activity going on since Adam and Eve. However, it's more likely you'll win the case in the US than anywhere else. At least we have freedom of speech, open Internet (so far), and can always (?) find a lawyer for your side. > only apologize and beg your patience while we in the U.S. try to > recover our traditional common sense. > > Thanks, > Matt That will take a while but don't hold your breath. As a matter of principle, not all options about EMC2 have been exhausted IMO. EMCII (Roman numerals) is one of them. Moving domain to other country would be another. So we all know, or speculate at this point, their case has no legitimacy, but it's impossible to tell unless we see what was presented to the LinuxCNC board by the Extremely Miserable Company. Questions arise: who are they going to sue or who they were threatening to sue? Developers? Board members? Mailing list members? Companies that use or plan to use EMC2? I see no reason to keep that correspondence "private". As a matter of fact, it should be open to the members to see what's in it? Or is it going to be "Nancy way" Pass the (health care) bill so we can see what's in it. While the name to me doesn't matter as much as the well proven quality of the software, it's annoying to see "such legal test cases" or practice to go on as that will be used for more intimidation in the future. We've seen too much of that going on in the last few years. Remember Lindows? Another victim of corporate bullying by a convicted OS manufacturer. Lindows was a real company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._Lindows I'm all for $20 mil to be paid to LinuxCNC nonprofit for further software/hardware development. Like the case above, EMC company should pay the time that people need to spend to make changes on this open source project. Renaming everything including IRC channels is just crazy and very time consuming! My first reaction would be to fight fire with fire, i.e. have http://www.fsf.org/ experts look into this. If nothing else, they should be aware of this bullying case. -- Rafael http://www.linwin.com/rafael/get_up_stand_up.mp3 Linux Is Not WINdows . com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
