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Re: The GPL dream is finally over!
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Linonut |
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Re: The GPL dream is finally over! |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:38:19 -0400 |
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* David Kastrup peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
>
>> Linonut's message quoted below proves that you just can't reason with
>> the GNU GPL true believers. Amusingly crazy clownish guys.
>
> Since they share this property with the courts and their decisions quite
> consistently, that's fine. Laws are interpreted not by Terekhov's
> notions of sane, funny, crazy and drunk, but by the courts.
>
> And actually, the courts are not really interested in whether you follow
> the law for sane or for crazy reasons or out of pure coincidence.
His own evidence damns him:
http://pacer.mad.uscourts.gov/dc/opinions/saris/pdf/progress%20software.pdf
MySQL gets protection for its trademark, but the other guys can still
use the GPL code.
Who's crazy here? It's not the GPL "true believers", that's for sure.
--
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think
that's how dogs spend their lives.
-- Sue Murphy
- The GPL dream is finally over!, Rjack, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Linonut, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Linonut, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Linonut, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, David Kastrup, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!,
Linonut <=
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Rjack, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Linonut, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, David Kastrup, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Rjack, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/08/16
- Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, David Kastrup, 2008/08/16
Re: The GPL dream is finally over!, Rjack, 2008/08/16