Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy

[amicus_curious]

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message 
news:rl3gl.28393$1W7.20085@newsfe11.iad...
> amicus_curious wrote:
> > Verizon said bushwah to the GPL and got the plaintiff to agree.
>
> The Verizon URL from which the Actiontec firmware can be downloaded
> includes "actiontec gateway". From the outside it's not possible to
> know whether Verizon is in fact violating the GPL. Actiontec itself
> makes the sources available.
>
> The interpretation that Verizon is willfully flouting the GPL is
> beloved by opponents of the GPL, but there is no evidence that this
> is true, merely wishful thinking.

I don't think that Verizon is flouting the GPL, they are simply ignoring it 
and paying no penalty for doing so.