Sonny! Uncle Hasler has spoken! John Hasler wrote: > > So they settled out of court (you tell this from the fact that both parties > consented to the dismissal).
Why would Cisco *NOT* consent to the dismissal of a lawsuit against Cisco with prejudice? What "settlement" are you talking about? Please provide the details. Hint: http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/06/verizon-ceo-doesnt-know-about.html ------ Verizon CEO doesn't know about open source By Sean Michael Kerner on June 18, 2008 1:37 PM >From the 'not everyone knows about open source yet' files: LAS VEGAS -- I just got out of a Q&A session with Verizon Communications CEO Denny Strigl and being an open source guy I asked Strigl about open source. Specifically I asked what role does open source play at Verizon now, especially in light of the recent SFLC lawsuit against Verizon on GPL infringement. Strigl looked at me with a blank face and asked me to repeat my question. He was completely clueless. He then asked one of his PR people to answer, and they too were clueless. In December of 2007 the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) filed its GPL lawsuit, which was settled in March of this year. The win was hailed as a victory for open source by the SFLC and others. Apparently though open source types (like myself) thought the Verizon thing was a big deal, it apparently never reached the radar screen of Verizon's top exec. Go figure. ------ More details: (to clarify) 1. Dismissal With Prejudice. (Verizon) To wit: http://www2.verizon.net/micro/actiontec/actiontec.asp still no word about the GNU GPL and/or source code... in spite of the complaint stating that http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/dec/07/busybox/verizon.pdf "Upon information and belief, ... Defendant also provides the Firmware corresponding to the Infringing Product for download via its website, at http://www2.verizon.net/micro/actiontec/actiontec.asp.";; 2. Dismissal With Prejudice. (Cisco) http://www.fsf.org/licensing/complaint-2008-12-11.pdf "As such, any rights Defendant may have had to redistribute any Program offered under any of the Licenses were automatically terminated the instant that Defendant made non-compliant distribution of the Program in its Infringing Products or Firmware. Since the first such violation of each Programs License, Defendant has had no right to distribute that Program, or a modified version of the Program, under any circumstances or conditions." LMAO! regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
