On 26/09/06, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dlink was one of the crooked companies that violated the gpl and was taken to court by Harold Welte. They lost the case. Their defence shows their crookedness and greed. Dlink contended that linux indulged in price fixing by keeping price at zero and hence was indulging in monopolistic behaviour. Therfore by magic Dlink was allowed to violate the terms of the GPL. The court said that irrespective of the allegation of price fixing, Dlink ceased to be a licencee of the gpl if it violtates any clause of the gpl.
who was indulged in price fixing? who is linux? was the company talking about the linux community? or linus him self?
Case was filed by Harold Welte of iptables fame.
very good. such people should file the cases to make people more responsible to their duties. I am forwarding this email to all who respect gpl and I hope Dr. Nagarjuna is also reading this. I will also forward this email to him/
Krishnakant could u put this in the press.
I properly need to understand this case. I am talking with the guys of DNA today any ways for some linux promotion campain. I am planning a series of articles on free and open softwares. as I said in some previous email, I am lifting my pen again.
This is a great victory cause it immediately fixes all responsibility on the distributor without exceptions due to alleged gpl. Time to boycott dlink. Alternative is DAX for switches and low end network stuff.
lol, im already using dax for most of my networking needs.
I belive that i have found another gpl violation from one of the largest IT houses in the country. They had developed an embedded kernel on arm for another multinational. The multinational's local contact says that thay dont have the source cause the IT house did not give them the source, and seemed to be unaware of the gpl requirements. Further investigation continues. I am not disclosing names until I am very sure. The company has already lost an order of Rs.30 lacs. If it can play dirty with the gpl it will most certainly do the same to me.
jtd, could you kindly email me off the list on [EMAIL PROTECTED] or this vary email id? I lost your contact number and your visiting card you had given me. I will certainly meet you in the coming few days. regards. Krishnakant. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
