Hello Michael, I hope this mail is still readable once it is converted to text-only format...
> Fuel to this fire, I think, is fine. Why not talk it out? Primarily because this mailing list is not for legal discussion, and we'll never ever "talk it out". You are a lawyer, most of us are not. Your views are founded in your knowledge of the law of the country you work in, while ours are based on news reports about seemingly nonsensical lawsuits filed in the US. You can't convince us because we don't have the background knowledge to verify your arguments. For my part, I believe that there will always be at least one lawyer that represents the opposite of your views, if paid enough money. That's why it takes judges to make verdicts, right? > > * Based on what I've read, > Would you spell out "what [you've] read" to make you think this? What kind > of allegations? What kind of analysis of code? How does this relate to > ASF? You are too dark here. Let us know what you actually are thinking? www.groklaw.net should be a good starting point. I remember that one example of "stolen code" involves indentical comments that go back to a common code base from which both, the proprietary and the open source software, got the same code. Or something like that. cheers, Roland
