Australian Eastern Standard Time. We're 11 hours ahead. I got sent this by a friend this afternoon and am trying to get hold of him to find his source. But he said the legal eagles at his firm have been flapping around in a panic for the past few days ensuring all the acknowledgements are 100%. If true I'll be most unimpressed by those behind it even if it's sole targets were only the big three mentioned, let alone all the small shops around the place that might forget to cross the Ts and dot the Is.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 7:01 PM Subject: Re: DevTECH Industries To Start Multi-billion $ Class Action Against Software Development Firms > In message <000f01c286e5$1659c590$0c00a8c0@bclaptop> on Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:09:59 +1100, "Bruce Cartland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > bruce.cartland> Anyone know anything about this? I've tried the > bruce.cartland> web site but there's nothing there. It's all somewhat > bruce.cartland> unbelievable. > > I agree with you. The biggest trouble I have with what you chose to > quote is basically that it says "we're gonna sue!" but it says NOTHING > about what the suit is about. Oh yeah, "infringement"... > Infringement of exactly what? > > bruce.cartland> Not that not acknowledging use of OpenSource > bruce.cartland> isn't bad karma. But is this a hoax? If not, why > bruce.cartland> doesn't OpenSSL have something on the website about it > bruce.cartland> (OpenSSL is implied in the text)? > > For my own part, your message is the first one showing me that press > release (I believe that's what it is, right?). Please remember that > almost all OpenSSL developpers are in Europe, so we're mostly running > in the GMT and CET, so it's possible we were all sleeping when the > press release came. BTW, what timezone is AEST? > > Could you tell us where you got that press release from? > > bruce.cartland> ============================================================================ ====== > bruce.cartland> 09:02 AEST Fri 8 Nov 2002 > bruce.cartland> > bruce.cartland> > bruce.cartland> DevTECH Industries To Start Multi-billion $ Class Action Against Software Development Firms. > bruce.cartland> > bruce.cartland> AFP - Software legal representative firm DevTECH industries has today announced a multi billion dollar class action that it will file with the US supreme court. > bruce.cartland> > bruce.cartland> One of the nations biggest ever actions, the lawsuit targets well over 15000 software development businesses and its customers with regards to copyright infringement. DevTECH is acting on behalf of a range of customers that develop open source tools such as SSL, which is used extensively in today's software. > bruce.cartland> > bruce.cartland> A DevTECH representative stated that this action represents legal history in the making, since the infringements are so wide spread. DevTECH's CEO, Tom Kanealy, was quoted as saying "Our customers are fed up with having their technology openly used without correct copyright acknowledgement. Previously it would have been impossible to try and legally pursue each individual infringement, although this opportunity with DevTECH now opens the way for a group of development companies to be targeted. > bruce.cartland> > bruce.cartland> "This Lawsuit will target some of the world's biggest software companies, including Microsoft, Novell and Sun Microsystems" > bruce.cartland> > bruce.cartland> Estimates are that damages claims will exceed the 8-10 billion dollar mark. For companies that may think they are affected by this lawsuit, there is a special website that has been setup in order to deal with issues prior to going to court. The address is www.DevTECH.com\Cprght\Cplist.html > bruce.cartland> > bruce.cartland> > bruce.cartland> ============================================================================ ====== > > -- > Richard Levitte \ Spannvägen 38, II \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Redakteur@Stacken \ S-168 35 BROMMA \ T: +46-8-26 52 47 > \ SWEDEN \ or +46-708-26 53 44 > Procurator Odiosus Ex Infernis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Member of the OpenSSL development team: http://www.openssl.org/ > > Unsolicited commercial email is subject to an archival fee of $400. > See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/~levitte/mail/> for more info. > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
