Re: JMRI case -- Implementation of the Federal Circuit's Opinion

2008-08-24 Thread Linonut
* David Kastrup peremptorily fired off this memo: When only isolated lunatics remain, it is over. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Sig material! Although the one below I just have to leave stet, even though it break Usenet etiquette. -- I suppose some of the variation

Re: The GPL dream is finally over!

2008-08-17 Thread Linonut
* Snit peremptorily fired off this memo: Linonut [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated in post [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/16/08 11:08 AM: * Rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: Have a nice day Linonut

Re: The GPL dream is finally over!

2008-08-16 Thread Linonut
* Rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: My dream is that Eben, RMS, and all GPL true believers read and understand this decision so that we need never again hear the nonsense claim that The GPL is a license and not a contract.

Re: The GPL dream is finally over!

2008-08-16 Thread Linonut
* Alexander Terekhov peremptorily fired off this memo: Linonut wrote: The good faith usage of the GPL has been going on for a couple decades now, and has resulted in a large body of software being available to millions of people. A conflict with business was inevitable

Re: The GPL dream is finally over!

2008-08-16 Thread Linonut
* Rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: Linonut wrote: I'll believe it has the effect you want when it hits the headlines due to an actual court case involving the GPL. The effect *I* want is irrelevant. It is the direct unequivocal language of the court that counts: When a condition

Re: The GPL dream is finally over!

2008-08-16 Thread Linonut
* Rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: Linonut wrote: Huh? You take quotes out of context and expect them to be meaningful? Context eh? I posted a link to the complete decision and you replied to my post, so you would have access to the court's decision. Your mouse button broken so

Re: The GPL dream is finally over!

2008-08-16 Thread Linonut
damages, of course). Note that Judge Saris correctly denied MySQL's motion for preliminary injunction applying contract (not copyright) standard regarding irreparable harm. http://pacer.mad.uscourts.gov/dc/opinions/saris/pdf/progress%20software.pdf What say you now, Linonut

Re: The GPL dream is finally over!

2008-08-16 Thread Linonut
* David Kastrup peremptorily fired off this memo: Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Linonut's message quoted below proves that you just can't reason with the GNU GPL true believers. Amusingly crazy clownish guys. Since they share this property with the courts and their decisions

Re: The GPL dream is finally over!

2008-08-16 Thread Linonut
* Alexander Terekhov peremptorily fired off this memo: snipped I don't truck with insults, generally. Especially in cross-posts. -- All of a sudden, I want to THROW OVER my promising ACTING CAREER, grow a LONG BLACK BEARD and wear a BASEBALL HAT!! ... Although I don't know WHY!!

Re: The GPL dream is finally over!

2008-08-16 Thread Linonut
* Rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: Have a nice day Linonut! _ _ |_| |_| | | /^^^\ | | _| |_ (| o

Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record

2008-07-25 Thread Linonut
* The Ghost In The Machine peremptorily fired off this memo: In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Alexander Terekhov How did you get that link, Hyman? I wen to http://www.supermicro.com, used the menu to click on Support/Downloads and noticed the link Supermicro FTP Site under Additional

Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record

2008-07-25 Thread Linonut
* Hyman Rosen peremptorily fired off this memo: Alexander Terekhov wrote: Now please go out of home and ask 100 guys on the street what does FTP Site (short of GPL) mean. 100 guys on the street, or a hundred guys on the street who have an interest in the source code? Of the latter, all of

Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record

2008-07-20 Thread Linonut
* Hyman Rosen peremptorily fired off this memo: rjack wrote: Every time (with 100% correlation) when the S.F.L.C. files a plaintiff's GPL case in the S.D.N.Y., this action causes the plaintiff to voluntarily dismiss his pointless lawsuit without the court ever reviewing the legal status

Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record

2008-07-20 Thread Linonut
* rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: _ _ |_| |_| | | /^^^\ | | _| |_ (| o |) _| |_ _| | | | _(_---_)_ | | | |_ | | | | |' |_| |_| `| | | | | | | / \ |

Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record

2008-07-19 Thread Linonut
* rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: Hyman Rosen wrote: The proof will be, once the case is over, whether the defendants properly make available the sources of the GPLed software that they are distributing. That most likely will be the case, because quoting from the complaint: Each

Re: Dismissal with prejudice is normal

2008-06-20 Thread Linonut
* rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: Tim Smith wrote: Someone (I forget who) recently pointed out in one or both of these newsgroups that when SFLC and Verizon settled their recent lawsuit, the suit was dismissed with prejudice. What that means is that the matter is completely over.

Re: Dismissal with prejudice is normal

2008-06-19 Thread Linonut
* Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo: Someone (I forget who) recently pointed out in one or both of these newsgroups that when SFLC and Verizon settled their recent lawsuit, the suit was dismissed with prejudice. What that means is that the matter is completely over. Plaintiff

Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal

2008-06-15 Thread Linonut
* Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linonut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: Linonut wrote: The rights comprised in a copyright may be subdivided and transferred. 17 U.S.C. 201(d)(2) (Any

Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal

2008-06-15 Thread Linonut
* Miles Bader peremptorily fired off this memo: Linonut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I can tell, rjack is simply a troll. Yup. He's the dim one too. -Miles Does that mean Terekhov is the smart one? -- Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave

Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal

2008-06-14 Thread Linonut
* rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: How could anyone be contemptuous of anything posted at the exquisitely researched Groklaw blog? Well... just maybe: The GPL is a License, Not a Contract, Which is Why the Sky Isn't Falling http://gl.scofacts.org/gl-20031214210634851.html Hmmm...

Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal

2008-06-14 Thread Linonut
* rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: Linonut wrote: The rights comprised in a copyright may be subdivided and transferred. 17 U.S.C. 201(d)(2) (Any of the exclusive rights comprised in a copyright, including any subdivision of any of the rights specified by section 106, may

Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal

2008-06-14 Thread Linonut
* rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: 17 USC sec. 101 Definitions states: A transfer of copyright ownership is an assignment, mortgage, exclusive license, or any other conveyance, alienation, or hypothecation of a copyright or of any of the exclusive rights comprised in a copyright,

Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal

2008-06-13 Thread Linonut
* Alexander Terekhov peremptorily fired off this memo: http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2008/06/09/daily18.html Reactions from the freetards universe: http://technocrat.net/d/2008/6/11/43190 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080611191302741 ROFL regards,

Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal

2008-06-13 Thread Linonut
* Rick peremptorily fired off this memo: Maybe you missed the parts where the OSS community is generally unhappy that Red Hat settled... and you missed the parts where Red Hat says the settlement covers upstream and downstream distributors, as well as the community. I don't know why they

Re: Software Fictional Licensing Center (SFLC) Files Another Round of GPL Violation Lawsuits

2008-06-11 Thread Linonut
* Richard Tobin peremptorily fired off this memo: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], rjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have have never found any *verifiable* detail of *any* settlement of these lawsuits other than the court records available on PACER. I have never found any *verifiable* evidence

Re: News Verizon calls SFLC bluff

2008-03-17 Thread Linonut
* rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: Alexander Terekhov wrote: I suspect that Verizon folks simply told SFLC that they are ready to raise a whole bunch of defenses resulting (if successful) in enforceability of GPL'd copyrights once and for all (e.g. doctrine of copyright misuse) and,

Re: News Verizon calls SFLC bluff

2008-03-17 Thread Linonut
* rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: Linonut wrote: * rjack peremptorily fired off this memo: Then why did they bother? And, if SFLC was at such a disadvantage, why wouldn't big ol' Verizon just go ahead and let little ol' SFLC take its beating in court? Wake up and smell the coffee

Re: My dad is a pirate.

2008-02-22 Thread Linonut
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] peremptorily fired off this memo: Minor point. The internet existed long before 1985 and there were good ways to do downloads ( legal or illegal)- that's what the binary USENET groups and BBS's were for. Tapes were readily available and copying a tape or copying a CD/DVD

Re: My dad is a pirate.

2008-02-22 Thread Linonut
* Banty peremptorily fired off this memo: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linonut says... * [EMAIL PROTECTED] peremptorily fired off this memo: Minor point. The internet existed long before 1985 and there were good ways to do downloads ( legal or illegal)- that's what the binary USENET groups

Re: Linux is great, but is it cool?

2008-01-15 Thread Linonut
* Robin T Cox peremptorily fired off this memo: On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:31:13 -0600, thad05 wrote: Of course we could both be wrong. I've also heard it said that a geek is someone who eats lightbulbs. So how many geeks does it take to change a light bulb? Zero. The person complaining

Re: What OS is used By Richard Stallman

2008-01-04 Thread Linonut
* Ignoramus5311 fired off this tart reply: On 2008-01-03, Roy Schestowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He uses gNewSense at the moment, so a Ubuntu (Debian) derivative in a sense. I interviewed him recently, so he told me. He used to be using Utoto. Roy, thanks, this is interesting to know!!!

Re: What OS is used By Richard Stallman

2008-01-04 Thread Linonut
* Mark Dodel fired off this tart reply: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 18:40:20 UTC, Linonut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Looks like it is Ututo, not Utoto, though. I can just see the Wicked Witch of the West (perhaps balmer in drag) saying I'll get you, my pretty,and your little dog utoto too

Re: GPL requirement could have a chilling effect on derivative distros

2006-07-02 Thread Linonut
After takin' a swig o' grog, Alexander Terekhov belched out this bit o' wisdom: Alexander Terekhov wrote: A: The context is property. Intangible intellectual property (rights granted under IP license). Property in short. Bt. A: Cost to obtain EXISTING property on buyer's side. Price

Re: Dr. Bill Gates, Philanthropist, Genius, and Visionary. FSF? What has it done?

2006-06-23 Thread Linonut
After takin' a swig o' grog, Karen Hill belched out this bit o' wisdom: It was noted that Bill Gates achieved an SAT score of 1590 and had an Erdos number of 4. Bill Gates revitalived and single handedly transformed Washington State's Seattle area into a tech powerhouse. He provided