Re: Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-16 Thread burns
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 13:59, Collins Richey wrote: What I read from this is an interpretation of the GPL that could loosely be expressed as what is mine is mine, what is yours is also mine. Oh dear... I read it as throwing a roadblock in front of a company who has attempted to adopt the

Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread Collins Richey
http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html This type of legal-schmegal wrangling is what we expect from SCO and its brethren. It smells no better when it comes from OSS. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow,

Re: Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote: http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html This type of legal-schmegal wrangling is what we expect from SCO and its brethren. It smells no better when it comes from OSS. I see nothing wrong with it. How would you propose that the GPL

Re: Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:10:36 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote: http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html This type of legal-schmegal wrangling is what we expect from SCO and its brethren. It smells no better when it

Re: Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:10:36 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote: http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html This type of legal-schmegal wrangling is what we expect from SCO

Re: Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread Bill Davidson
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:59:18 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:10:36 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote: http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html This type of legal-schmegal

Re: Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:34:16 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no interpretation. The GPL clearly explicitly requires that you release the source for your work, and all derrivitive works. The FSF is enforcing that requirement. I'll ask again, how would you propose

Re: Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:38:07 -0600 http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html This type of legal-schmegal wrangling is what we expect from SCO and its brethren. It smells no better when it comes from OSS. If copyrights are not enforced the courts rule

Re: Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Collins Richey: http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html This type of legal-schmegal wrangling is what we expect from SCO and its brethren. It smells no better when it comes from OSS. Naturally, you're reading a slanted article from a magazine that doesn't understand

Re: Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread James McDonald
Collins Richey wrote: http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html This type of legal-schmegal wrangling is what we expect from SCO and its brethren. It smells no better when it comes from OSS. Business's ultimate goal is to be a monopoly in the particular area they inhabit and