amicus_curious wrote:
I think that this kind of activity will go on simply
because it is fun for the participants to do so.
They care not for any licensing or other restrictions.
Are you deliberately missing the point? These people are able
to do what they do because the machines they run
amicus_curious wrote:
There is no benefit to the community of any real significance in
harassing them over adding one more site to download from. All that
seems to achieve is to give credibility to Ballmer's warning that
Linux is a sort of cancer that a business whould be smart to avoid.
Hadron wrote:
It's a problem with real people in the real world.
What is the antecedent of your it?
Freeloaders, thieves and general scroungers will indeed take advantage.
It's why the most used commercial SW projects in the world do not give
out their source codes as a general rule. If
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com writes:
Hadron wrote:
It's a problem with real people in the real world.
What is the antecedent of your it?
Freeloaders, thieves and general scroungers will indeed take advantage.
It's why the most used commercial SW projects in the world do not give
out their
Hadron wrote:
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com writes:
Hadron wrote:
It's a problem with real people in the real world.
What is the antecedent of your it?
Freeloaders, thieves and general scroungers will indeed take advantage.
It's why the most used commercial SW projects in the world do
Hadron wrote:
Err, so what? How will the FSF stop freeloaders stealing
the code and giving nothing back? Duh.
The only thing the GPL requires is compliance with its license.
If you copy and distribute GPLed code, you must make the sources
available. If you don't, and are found out, the
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amicus_curious wrote:
There is no benefit to the community of any real significance in
harassing them over adding one more site to download from. All that
seems to achieve is to give credibility to
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After takin' a swig o' grog, Hyman Rosen belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
amicus_curious wrote:
There is no benefit to the community of any real significance in
harassing them over
amicus_curious wrote:
I cannot believe that is the intended effect.
The BusyBox copyright holders have pursued many such
cases, so it seems that they are satisfied with the
effects.
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amicus_curious wrote:
I think that this kind of activity will go on simply
because it is fun for the participants to do so.
They care not for any licensing or other restrictions.
Are you deliberately
amicus_curious wrote:
It protects everyone from non-threats.
It is the prerogative of copyright holders to license their
work as they choose. It is up to them to decide what to
regard as threatening, not their users (or random bystanders).
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amicus_curious wrote:
But they could and would do that anyway without the GPL.
The device makers found that GPLed software was suited to
their needs, and therefore the users have the source code
available to them for modification. That is not the case
with many other devices, where
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com writes:
amicus_curious wrote:
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That's what free software aims to accomplish, and that
you find it preposterous says more about you than about the FSF.
Indeed it does, as does the odd observation that people criticizing free
software in this forum are more likely to
After takin' a swig o' grog, Hyman Rosen belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
amicus_curious wrote:
There is no benefit to the community of any real significance in
harassing them over adding one more site to download from. All that
seems to achieve is to give credibility to Ballmer's warning
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes of GPL violators as poor souls:
But these poor souls are simply using embedded Linux/Busybox in lieu of
more conventional Linux/GNU Utilities to run their applications. There
is no benefit to the community of any real significance in harassing
them over adding
Hadron snotted:
Freeloaders, thieves and general scroungers will indeed take advantage.
It's why the most used commercial SW projects in the world do not give
out their source codes as a general rule. If they did their hard work
would be distributed and cloned
That doesn't explain any
Peter Köhlmann wrote:
Hadron wrote:
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com writes:
Hadron wrote:
It's a problem with real people in the real world.
What is the antecedent of your it?
Freeloaders, thieves and general scroungers will indeed take advantage.
It's why the most used commercial SW
amicus_curious wrote:
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amicus_curious wrote:
I think that this kind of activity will go on simply
because it is fun for the participants to do so.
They care not for any licensing or other restrictions.
Rjack wrote:
Just ask the last five defendants who faced them.
They came into compliance with the GPL, so there was
no point in the cases going forward. That's why they
settled. Courts do not hear cases where there are no
disputes.
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Hyman Rosen wrote:
Rjack wrote:
The GPL is a legal delusion in Richard Stallman's marxist mind.
It seems to be a solid enough delusion that Microsoft was very
careful to make sure that its code would not fall under that
license.
Why would Microsoft ever want to give away their intellectual
Rjack wrote:
Hyman Rosen wrote:
Rjack wrote:
The GPL is a legal delusion in Richard Stallman's marxist mind.
It seems to be a solid enough delusion that Microsoft was very
careful to make sure that its code would not fall under that
license.
Why would Microsoft ever want to give away their
Rjack wrote:
Cancer is a real disease. The GPL is a legal delusion in Richard
Stallman's marxist mind.
*plonk*
Sincerely,
Rjack :)
Go fsck yourself,
chrisv :)
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Cancer is a real disease. The GPL is a legal delusion in Richard
Stallman's marxist mind.
Figuratively, of course, in the sense that it is a hidden defect with sudden
and disasterous
chrisv chr...@nospam.invalid writes:
Rjack wrote:
Cancer is a real disease. The GPL is a legal delusion in Richard
Stallman's marxist mind.
*plonk*
Sincerely,
Rjack :)
Go fsck yourself,
I thought that was pretty much what he has been doing all the time here.
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