On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Res wrote: >> How would they be "better off"? Do the developers of that >> software have large sums of money? No. Do the developers of > >So its a case of protect the writter but shoot the messenger....no sense >in that. > > >> If you think about it, people making GPL MP3 software are > >They still distribute it, and all RH is doing like ANY and EVERY other >ftp is distributing it.
No, Red Hat would be including it in products which are sold for anywhere from $40 a copy to $2500 a copy. That is absolutely not the same as some random ftp site out there distributing it. >Take for instance the IP rights, of the content, Springsteen >releases a CD the copyright cops go after the distributor AND >the end user, theres no money to be made by sueing the hard >working parents of a 15 yo kid just because he is an end user >who d/l'd and has in his possesion a copy of one of his tracks >BUT they go out of there way to do it. I don't follow what you're saying here. >> companies that use the free code. The author of the programs are >> more or less not likely to ever come in the gun scope. IP owners >> sue where there is money to be had. > >*cough* as above. I don't follow what you're saying here. >> They very well *could*. That doesn't mean that they would. If >> *you* were a patent owner in such a situation, would you sue >> 10000000 individual people, none of whom you'd likely make 10 >> cents off of, and of which you'd have 30 years worth of lawsuits > >I wouldnt, but the music industry takes great delight in doing so :) You are trying to compare copyright law to patent law. the two are very different things. >> And I'm amazed by how many people assume I'm American. I'm > >lol maybe because most the ppl I've ever seen post from redhat are in >America :) How do you know that? -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
