On 2/15/06, Yorick Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:28:22AM +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > On 2/14/06, Yorick Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > Assuming you mean the FSF and/or GNU project, with whom are they > > > entering onto agreement? Mmmmh? > > > > I mean the GPL license. > > The GPL is a text, not an undertaking you can sue under art. 81. Which > are the undertakings entering an unlawful agreement?
Next stupid question, please. Are you really educated in (some) law? [...] > The problem is that the GPL does not restrict competition, but rather > enhances it. See, among others, the very good article Ville sent you. Not entirely bad article, I agree. I just don't find his argumentation convincing. > > See also the very simple fact that GNU/Linux is the first serious > competitor to MS Windows to emerge in quite some time. This in and of > itself demonstrates a heightening in competition, not a restriction. Fighting competition by employing unlawful means is illegal. Wallace didn't sue Apple and Darwin folk for foreclosing competition using predatory price fixing of pooled and cross-licensed IP with the BSD. Because the BSD doesn't price fix IP, I gather. [...] > The central fact is very simple: there is no price-fixing in the > GPL. Mikko Välimäki seems to disagree. > The "conflation between the copyright assets and the physical > media" is not, in this specific case, illegitimate. ... Well, we'll see. > Also, please stop CCing people. I am subscribed to the list and don't > need your answers twice. Please learn how to set up followup-to if it bothers you. regards, alexander.