Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty

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From: Tim Haynes
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00

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David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> 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...

Cool idea :)

(Would all those companies' lawyers be remotely interested in a mere
license violation when the money involved is nil, and how would many folks
go about bringing a case to court anyway? (More to the point, as long as
it's possible I can sleep easy :) )

~Tim
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From: "Tim Haynes" <piglet@glutinous.custard.org>
Subject: Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
Date: 2000/04/05
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