I'm glad this is being cleared up a bit here. Yes, I should have made the civil/criminal distinction. Yes, it's too expensive to be practical for commercial companies. But still, at least in my fantasies, Stallman would have done a big fundraiser to bring such a case to court, since he seems to be attached to principals rather than personal enrichment. My ex worked for the remnants of Symbolics. Ironically, when someone was interested in buying and making the company an educational non-profit, one new employee took it upon himself to propose Macsyma, among their other software, be open sourced, to the "benefactor." This undermined the CEO's pitch, though I have no clear idea what else made the negotiation fail, except the Harvard math department got the money instead(!). But I got hooked on linux and, at least the theory of, Open Source.
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