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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar |
Date: | Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:02:14 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) |
amicus_curious wrote:
No one wants to have to bother with that.
No one likes to pay money for software either, and the BSA goes after companies who fail to do so without worrying about sullying the good name of proprietary software. > There is absolutely no benefit to anyone for having Verizon > put some obscure crap on their website. Verizon appears to think it necessary to provide a link to Actiontec's firmware. If it's necessary to provide binaries, it's good for users' freedom to provide source. > That gives FOSS a bad name. Who wants to use stuff like that > and risk getting bitten by the looney tunes that think software > is some kind of religious experience? That has a simple answer - every single company who has been sued by the SFLC and has agreed to comply with the GPL instead of stopping distribution of GPLed software.
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