"RJack" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Another frivolous lawsuit to which the SFLC can spin:
One can only wonder how many of these things are necessary for the FSF and
SFLC and Moglen (which seem to be MOL synonymous terms). I don't think
anyone is intimidated or even slightly fooled by the practice. A small
state school could hit up the alumni for big bucks to build an average
football team and then go schedule a bunch of weak sisters ala' Slippery
Rock Teacher's College to play against so as to be able to claim a winning
or even undefeated season. But the savvy observer is not going to be
fooled.
These cases seem to center around some unsuspecting developer making the
fatal mistake of using the BusyBox utilities for some embedded computer
device and failing to pay homage to the FOSSers by posting yet another copy
of the BusyBox source code somewhere. Any downstream manufacturer who
trades in such a device is then pounced upon by the Moglen mob and extorted
for legal fees and headlines. At the same time the FSF et al parades around
suggesting that they are there to save us all from unscrupulous companies
that create some desirable product and then want us to pay them to be able
to use it. Depending on your view of the whole thing, they are either being
clowns or are a serious cancer in the industry. I think they are just
clowns desperate for recognition in some vanity fair sort of way.
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