David Kastrup wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov <terek...@web.de> writes: > > > Just in: > > > > 04/26/2011 194 ENDORSED LETTER addressed to Judge Shira A. Scheindlin > > from Emmett J. McMahon, dated 4/25/2011, re: Counsel for the defendant > > Best Buy Co., writes to request a pre-motion conference regarding a > > motion to strike Plaintiffs' claim for "actual damages and any > > additional profits of [Best Buy] incurred as the result of > > infringement." ENDORSEMENT: Request granted. A premotion conference will > > be held on May 6 at 2:30. So Ordered. (Pre-Motion Conference set for > > 5/6/2011 at 02:30 PM before Judge Shira A. Scheindlin) (Signed by Judge > > Shira A. Scheindlin on 4/25/2011) (lnl) (Entered: 04/26/2011) > > > > The letter: > > > > http://www.terekhov.de/194.pdf > > > > Best Buy says that Plaintiffs have suffered no damages at all. > > > > (And rightly so.) > > That's the "there are no damages when stealing from a charity since they > are not intending to make a profit anyway" argument. Let's see whether > the judge buys that.
Stealing something (including intangibles) with positive market value results in damages (charity or no charity is irrelevant). Best Buy says that market value of Andersen's contributions to BusyBox v0.60.3 is ZERO because the copyright owners in the entire BusyBox program have intentionally made it freely available (zero price to obtain) to anyone and his dog (and no action by Best Buy has precluded anyone from accessing the BusyBox program). It's really simple, dak. regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss