Rjack wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Happy pagan fertility rite, RJack! > > . . . whining . . . > . . . more whining . . . > >> Its enforceability is a sensible default assumption. The GPL was >> put together by a competent lawyer, > > I didn't know Richard Stallman was a lawyer. Was that pseudo-fact also > a default assumption? > >> is perfectly clear in what it says, is perfectly reasonable in what >> it says, has so far stood the test of time, and has been ruled >> valid by judges whenever it has been challenged in court. > > The GPL has never been interpreted by a U.S. court. > >> Your arguments, on the other hand, as much as I can make them out, >> seem based on arcane interpretations of USA law, sometimes citing >> cases going back the best part of a century judged in social >> conditions which simply don't exist any more. They also seem based >> on the notion that absolute logical consistency holds in law. >> >> So put your argument up on a web site, and leave some room here for >> people to talk about something interesting. > > As long as the Free Software Foundation claims enforceability under > U.S. law and harasses folks through bogus lawsuits, I shall counter > their attempts at socialist propaganda. Countless blogs mindlessly > repeat their fiction and this demands correction. Rulings in non-U.S. > jurisdictions are irrelevant to me as I have explicitly disclaimed > knowledge of non-U.S. law. > > You Marxist folks may wallow in Stallman's socialism all you wish. I > don't expect you to grasp or follow U.S. law. Dogs don't do nuclear > physics and socialists don't do capitalism. If you don't like or > understand the arguments I present, then by all means use your > kill-filter to raise your comfort level. > > Sincerely, > Rjack :)
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