Homer stated in post [email protected] on 8/15/11 6:30 PM: > Verily I say unto thee that Hyman Rosen spake thusly: >> On 8/15/2011 4:31 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: >>> http://terekhov.de/211.pdf >>> >>> "Because WD has not met its burden of demonstrating that its use of >>> the BusyBox software would not affect the value of plaintiffs' >>> copyright..." >>> >>> What the FUCK Judge SCHEINDLIN is talking about regarding "affect the >>> value of plaintiffs' copyright..."? >>> >>> Hey dak and Hyman, any ideas?&(%&^$%*^%#$@@#(PO(*_)^%& >> >> Certainly. The copyright holders wish to use their exclusive rights >> granted to them by copyright law to encourage growth of free software. >> They do this by granting permission to copy and distribute their >> copyrighted work only to those who comply with the GPL, in the belief >> that such compliance accomplishes what they wish. Copying and >> distributing BusyBox in violation of the GPL will not, in the >> plaintiffs' opinion, encourage the growth of free software, and >> therefore their copyright is being devalued. > > You don't /seriously/ expect fascist nuts like Terekhov to understand > "value" in terms other than money, do you? > > The "value" of Free Software is its freedom, including the Freedom to > make money from it, as Red Hat, Google and others have done, provided > the beneficiaries extend that same freedom to others. WD took all the > benefits, but didn't extend them to others, and so violated the GPL.
In other words: the IP restrictions were not upheld. OK. > It's not a difficult concept to grasp, unless you're the sort of thug > that drools over monopolistic subjugation, like Terekhov. -- 🙈🙉🙊 _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
