Alexander Terekhov <terek...@web.de> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Alexander Terekhov <terek...@web.de> writes: >> >> > Just in: >> > >> > 04/26/2011 194 ENDORSED LETTER addressed to Judge Shira A. Scheindlin >> > from Emmett J. McMahon, dated 4/25/2011, re: Counsel for the defendant >> > Best Buy Co., writes to request a pre-motion conference regarding a >> > motion to strike Plaintiffs' claim for "actual damages and any >> > additional profits of [Best Buy] incurred as the result of >> > infringement." ENDORSEMENT: Request granted. A premotion conference will >> > be held on May 6 at 2:30. So Ordered. (Pre-Motion Conference set for >> > 5/6/2011 at 02:30 PM before Judge Shira A. Scheindlin) (Signed by Judge >> > Shira A. Scheindlin on 4/25/2011) (lnl) (Entered: 04/26/2011) >> > >> > The letter: >> > >> > http://www.terekhov.de/194.pdf >> > >> > Best Buy says that Plaintiffs have suffered no damages at all. >> > >> > (And rightly so.) >> >> That's the "there are no damages when stealing from a charity since they >> are not intending to make a profit anyway" argument. Let's see whether >> the judge buys that. > > Stealing something (including intangibles) with positive market value > results in damages (charity or no charity is irrelevant). > > Best Buy says that market value of Andersen's contributions to BusyBox > v0.60.3 is ZERO because the copyright owners in the entire BusyBox > program have intentionally made it freely available (zero price to > obtain) to anyone and his dog
Like a soup kitchen. > It's really simple, dak. Well, given your awful track record at predicting "really simple" things, let's just wait for the judge's verdict on that. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
