On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:18:05PM -0700, Mark A. Biggar wrote: > > >Has any FOSS developer ever been found liable (or even sued)? > > > >Not that I have any objections to this plan but it might be worth > >considering that it's much easier to sue a single entity then it is to > >file a tort against a few tens or hundreds of contributors.
So you don't bother - you file a tort against just one. Divide and conquer. > Yes, the guy who wrote an open source DVD player for Linux was sued by > the consortium of companies that own the IP for DVD's. I don't remember > the result, but the EFF archives should have something on it. And which would you prefer - some human being bankrupted. Or TPF being bankrupted? If TPF dies, something else will take over the jobs it does, and no-one will be made homeless. Nicholas Clark
