Verily I say unto thee that Hyman Rosen spake thusly: > On 8/15/2011 4:31 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: >> http://terekhov.de/211.pdf >> >> "Because WD has not met its burden of demonstrating that its use of >> the BusyBox software would not affect the value of plaintiffs' >> copyright..." >> >> What the FUCK Judge SCHEINDLIN is talking about regarding "affect the >> value of plaintiffs' copyright..."? >> >> Hey dak and Hyman, any ideas?&(%&^$%*^%#$@@#(PO(*_)^%& > > Certainly. The copyright holders wish to use their exclusive rights > granted to them by copyright law to encourage growth of free software. > They do this by granting permission to copy and distribute their > copyrighted work only to those who comply with the GPL, in the belief > that such compliance accomplishes what they wish. Copying and > distributing BusyBox in violation of the GPL will not, in the > plaintiffs' opinion, encourage the growth of free software, and > therefore their copyright is being devalued.
You don't /seriously/ expect fascist nuts like Terekhov to understand "value" in terms other than money, do you? The "value" of Free Software is its freedom, including the Freedom to make money from it, as Red Hat, Google and others have done, provided the beneficiaries extend that same freedom to others. WD took all the benefits, but didn't extend them to others, and so violated the GPL. It's not a difficult concept to grasp, unless you're the sort of thug that drools over monopolistic subjugation, like Terekhov. -- K. | "Everything that should be is working." http://slated.org | ~ Vostok 1 designer and chief engineer, Fedora 8 (Werewolf) on šky | Sergei Korolev, to Yuri Gagarin, during kernel 2.6.31.5, up 84 days | the first manned space mission. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
