> A gentle proposition given that the product was in breach with the GPL. > Alternatively, the FSF could have asked to revoke all Linksys routers > from the market and pay, say $10 compensation for each unit already > sold. (In other words: $4M which could be used, for example, to pay > Linus Torvalds the next ten or twenty years for Linux kernel > development.)
The whole FSF/GPL thing is silly, and the above illustrates that - it all simply boils down to money. FSF/GPL messiahs captured the imagination of many, and as any other religion got a lots of free work done, and then capitalized on that big time. Why should FSF be paid ? Or L.Torvalds ? Because they appear on TV ? I fixed some stuff in a compiler - maybe 10-15 lines of code - I WANT MY SHARE. And no, I don't delegate fuckers from FSF/Cygnus to represent me. ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]