Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread David Kastrup
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote in message news:87pr8s4t7b@lola.goethe.zz... Rjack u...@example.net writes: David Kastrup wrote: He made the rather audacious and totally unsupported statement that the GPL software market is worth billions by now

Psystar/Apple/First sale on Groklaw

2009-10-13 Thread David Kastrup
URL:http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009101015236 Just for the record: I quite disagree with Pamela Jones on her assessment of the situation. She basically thinks that first sale should only be claimed by some fuzzy notion of end user or not at all, and that any different

Re: Psystar/Apple/First sale on Groklaw

2009-10-13 Thread Alexander Terekhov
David Kastrup wrote: URL:http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009101015236 Just for the record: I quite disagree with Pamela Jones on her assessment of the situation. She basically thinks that first sale For a change, you are in good company, dak. ;-) To GNUtian Hyman Rosen:

Re: Psystar/Apple/First sale on Groklaw

2009-10-13 Thread Hyman Rosen
Alexander Terekhov wrote: To GNUtian Hyman Rosen: see comments below regarding the Blizzard case that you've liked so much... I would be thrilled if the Blizzard case were overturned. I am very much in favor of people being able to reverse- engineer protocols and do things that are

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread amicus_curious
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote in message news:87skdniz1r@lola.goethe.zz... amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote in message news:87pr8s4t7b@lola.goethe.zz... Rjack u...@example.net writes: David Kastrup wrote: He made the rather audacious and

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread amicus_curious
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote in message news:87skdniz1r@lola.goethe.zz... amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote in message news:87pr8s4t7b@lola.goethe.zz... Rjack u...@example.net writes: David Kastrup wrote: He made the rather audacious and

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread David Kastrup
amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote in message Uh yes. We were talking about _market_ value of GPL software business. Now you want to exclude everything for which one has to pay. How much more stupid can you get? Well I find it difficult to achieve your

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Tim Smith wrote: [...] Groklaw seems to agree with you. PJ says the Autodesk ruling is poison for FOSS and hopes it is overturned. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009101015236 Yeah, yeah. Well, at least her own pseudo-paralegal conclusions are quite a contribution on the

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread Hyman Rosen
Alexander Terekhov wrote: Well, at least her own pseudo-paralegal conclusions are quite a contribution on the recreational front! ;-) I don't know why she seems to have gone off the deep end over this; she seems to have forgotten that first sale does not affect the rights of the copyright

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Hyman Rosen wrote: [...] rights of the copyright holder. Creating the copies allowed by the first does not give you permission to distribute them. Facts: (1) http://www.copyright.gov/reports/studies/dmca/sec-104-report-vol-1.pdf There is no dispute that section 109 applies to works in

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread Hyman Rosen
Alexander Terekhov wrote: lawfully made tangible copy The copies made for personal use, under the GPL's http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not convey provision aren't the lawfully made tangible copies you're looking for.

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Hyman Rosen wrote: Alexander Terekhov wrote: lawfully made tangible copy The copies made for personal use, under the GPL's ... *Run* to doctor, Hyman. regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Alexander Terekhov wrote: [... http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009101015236 ...] Well, at least her own pseudo-paralegal conclusions are quite a contribution on the recreational front! ;-) The latest ones... priceless! Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, October 13 2009 @ 01:35 PM EDT

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread Hyman Rosen
Alexander Terekhov wrote: Hyman Rosen wrote: Alexander Terekhov wrote: lawfully made tangible copy The copies made for personal use, under the GPL's ... *Run* to doctor, Hyman. As an illustrative example, imagine that you videotape an over-the-air broadcast television program. Do you

LMAO! So which do you want most, first sale or the GPL?

2009-10-13 Thread Alexander Terekhov
LOL. Unbelievable!!! http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=displaysid=2009101015236title=GPL%20%3D%2F%3D%20EULA%21%21%21%21%21type=articleorder=DESChideanonymous=0pid=793329#c793360 Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, October 13 2009 @ 01:39 PM EDT You are missing the point. It doesn't matter if

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Hyman Rosen wrote: [...] As an illustrative example, imagine that you videotape an over-the-air broadcast television program. Do you believe that first-sale allows you to sell the videotape? Do you I believe that transfer of a fair use copy is subject to fair use analysis just like the act of

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread Tim Smith
In article ib3bm.3197$ku5.2...@newsfe04.iad, Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com wrote: Alexander Terekhov wrote: Hyman Rosen wrote: Alexander Terekhov wrote: lawfully made tangible copy The copies made for personal use, under the GPL's ... *Run* to doctor, Hyman. As an illustrative

NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 14 October 2009 NYLUG: Tobias Abdon and Matt Tavis on Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services

2009-10-13 Thread secretary
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Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread Alexander Terekhov
[... PJ's comedy at www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009101015236 ... ] Chattels and software - a thought exercise Authored by: swmcd on Tuesday, October 13 2009 @ 02:55 PM EDT I'm completely lost. First sale works great with books. You can't run off a million copies of a book in ten

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread Rjack
Hyman Rosen wrote: Alexander Terekhov wrote: Hyman Rosen wrote: Alexander Terekhov wrote: lawfully made tangible copy The copies made for personal use, under the GPL's ... *Run* to doctor, Hyman. As an illustrative example, imagine that you videotape an over-the-air broadcast television

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread Hyman Rosen
Rjack wrote: How does an over-the-air broadcast television program relate to an over-the-internet computer program licensed under a FOSS license? Both of them are legally copied in a way which restricts further distribution of the copies. ___

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread amicus_curious
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote in message news:87k4yzgwfx@lola.goethe.zz... amicus_curious a...@sti.net writes: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote in message Uh yes. We were talking about _market_ value of GPL software business. Now you want to exclude everything for which one has to

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-13 Thread amicus_curious
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com wrote in message news:x8abm.142618$y83.11...@newsfe21.iad... Rjack wrote: How does an over-the-air broadcast television program relate to an over-the-internet computer program licensed under a FOSS license? Both of them are legally copied in a way which