Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty

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From: David Damerell
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00

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Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> wrote:
>But who is there to fight for the open-source model when its licenses are
>violated? 

Let us imagine that there is some GPLed code in Windoze. That would
require all of Windoze to be made available under the GPL, which would be
very amusing for IBM, Sun, Corel, DEC/Compaq, Apple, the FSF,
AOL/Netscape/Time Warner/Genom Corporation, etc. I suspect there
would be no shortage of lawyer money to fight that one with...
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From: David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
Date: 2000/04/05
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