FC4 or FC5

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Jun 20 04:53:34 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 20:16 -0700, jdow wrote:
> From: "Craig White" <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> 
> > All that notwithstanding, IP attorneys can be aggressive with opinion
> > but it is companies and thus the consumer that ultimately pays their
> > bills and that is perhaps the best argument for GPL since one of the
> > intentions of the GPL was to level the playing field and permit the
> > software consumer to own software to the point where they aren't subject
> > to arbitrary corporate whim or obtuse IP attorneys bills.
> 
> That worked REAL well with regards to the SCO attorneys, didn't it?
----
one corporations attorneys squaring off against another corporations
attorneys...hardly anything anyone can stop but:

1 - it's not a GPL issue

2 - it's partially funded (SCO) by Microsoft investment

3 - judging by their total lack of a substantive or even a minor victory
so far, SCO is going down in flames

Do you go looking for the negative side of every issue or do they just
seem to find you?

Craig




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