Christopher Browne wrote: > > Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > would write: > > Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> John Hasler wrote: ... > >> > >> http://www.linuxworld.com/read/49064_4.htm > > > > Linuxworld, the publication that had its entire senior staff quit > > recently because of a complete lack of responsible publishing.
Yeah, as if that book review article is in the same class as MOG's ramblings. > > > > And indeed, this article is quite in line with what one has come to > > expect from Syscon (the publisher) in general. GNUtian dak doesn't like http://www.stromian.com/Corner/Feb2005.html, of course. > > Just out of interest, is there _any_ truth to their claim that the FSF > has "changed leadership"? Or was that made up from whole cloth too? Lessig aside for a moment, http://www.fsf.org/news/new-executive-director.html Oh, Ah, BTW, (quoting the article) So far the FSF has been scrupulous about avoiding court, relying on quiet persuasion that moves over to loud public indignation and pressure on the infringer from many quarters, and it has been successful so far. Here's the scheme explained by FSF's own "GPL Compliance Engineer." http://novalis.org/talks/lsm-talk-2004/slide-31.html <quote> Don't go to court FSF hasn't. Court is expensive Judges don't understand technology "Is static linking like two icons on one desktop?" -Judge Saris, MySQL v. Nusphere oral argument </quote> http://novalis.org/talks/lsm-talk-2004/slide-37.html <quote> Avoid publicity Don't talk about a violation publicly unless you have no choice Every violation I have mentioned was already mentioned on Slashdot I won't tell you about violations which aren't already public Publicity can be a useful threat ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ </quote> How SCOish (apart from going to court). http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Stallman/prophet.shtml (Negative PR hammer of GPL as a source of income for FSF) <quote> Last year, the foundation alleged that OpenTV, a San Francisco company that ships a set-top box containing Linux, was violating the GPL. The drama took months to resolve and ended with OpenTV writing a check for $65,000 to the Free Software Foundation. "They paid us a very substantial payment for our time and trouble," Moglen says. </quote> So much about FSF's ethics and morality. regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
