Re: Oh No! Big Trouble in the land of GNU

2009-12-15 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Ha ha. "It will be interesting to see where this ends. "Much as other Busybox developers wish to support the general cause of getting companies to comply with simple Free Software Licenses, some of the other developers and I are becoming annoyed with Mr. Andersen and Mr. Landley's apparent violati

Re: SFLC in frivolous mode again

2009-12-15 Thread Alexander Terekhov
David Kastrup wrote: > > RJack writes: > > > David Kastrup wrote: > > > >> Most certainly the SFLC does not need to read the outpour of > >> self-proclaimed legal amateurs in this newsgroup in order to plan their > >> course of action. > >> > >> They have a quite better track record at predicti

Re: SFLC in frivolous mode again

2009-12-15 Thread David Kastrup
RJack writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > >> Most certainly the SFLC does not need to read the outpour of >> self-proclaimed legal amateurs in this newsgroup in order to plan their >> course of action. >> >> They have a quite better track record at predicting legal cases than the >> most vociferous

NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 16 December 2009 NYLUG Holiday Eating and Drinking

2009-12-15 Thread secretary
From: NYLUG Announcements To: NYLUG Announcements Message-Id: <20091215143002.15620e2...@nylug.org> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:30:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: [nylug-announce] TOMORROW! NYLUG 12/16 Annual Holiday Pizza Party Reply-To: Announcements from NYLUG REMINDER: This meeting is tomorr

Re: SFLC in frivolous mode again

2009-12-15 Thread RJack
David Kastrup wrote: Most certainly the SFLC does not need to read the outpour of self-proclaimed legal amateurs in this newsgroup in order to plan their course of action. They have a quite better track record at predicting legal cases than the most vociferous know-alls here. Do you mean the

Re: SFLC in frivolous mode again

2009-12-15 Thread David Kastrup
RJack writes: > RJack wrote: >> After having read this newsgroup and learning that you must register >> your BusyBox copyrights prior to filing suit for infringement, the >> SFLC has filed a new lawsuit with fourteen defendants this time. >> >> Ahh. let the fun begin anew. >> > > Per

Oh No! Big Trouble in the land of GNU

2009-12-15 Thread RJack
"Yesterday, we reported that the Software Freedom Law Center had started a lawsuit against several companies who they claim violated the GPL. The subject of the violation was BusBox, and the SFLC claims it is operating on behalf of the authors of BusyBox. Original BusyBox author Bruce Perens, howe

Re: SFLC in frivolous mode again

2009-12-15 Thread RJack
RJack wrote: After having read this newsgroup and learning that you must register your BusyBox copyrights prior to filing suit for infringement, the SFLC has filed a new lawsuit with fourteen defendants this time. Ahh. let the fun begin anew. Perhaps when the SFLC legal beagles

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 15 December 2009 Perl Seminar NYC: Pratik Dave on Map/Reduce and Eating and Drinking

2009-12-15 Thread secretary
To: n...@lists.pm.org From: James E Keenan Subject: perlsemny + more Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:36:11 -0500 Rumor has it that if we finish up early enough tomorrow night, we will adjourn to a yet-to-be-disclosed location for Yuletide Cheer. Perl Seminar New York Tuesday Dec 15 2009 6

Re: SFLC in frivolous mode again

2009-12-15 Thread RJack
Alan Mackenzie wrote: In gnu.misc.discuss RJack wrote: After having read this newsgroup and learning that you must register your BusyBox copyrights prior to filing suit for infringement, the SFLC has filed a new lawsuit with fourteen defendants this time. Ahh. let the fun begin a

Re: Is Wikipedia censorship or...

2009-12-15 Thread Miles Bader
Cork Soaker writes: >> ...just a bunch of conceited, immature, juvenile, control-freaks who get >> picked on every day by the school bully and take it out on the Internet >> when they get off the bus? > > What are you going on about, loon? Clearly his attempts to spam his malware on wikipedia got

Re: SFLC in frivolous mode again

2009-12-15 Thread Alan Mackenzie
In gnu.misc.discuss RJack wrote: > After having read this newsgroup and learning that you must register > your BusyBox copyrights prior to filing suit for infringement, the SFLC > has filed a new lawsuit with fourteen defendants this time. > Ahh. let the fun begin anew. Hi, Rjack, h