In case you haven’t realized, the Software Freedom Law Center is the legal wing of the GNU movement that has brought to you such literary masterpiece as the GNU General Public License.
As the GNU/FUD campaign continues, it’s only reasonable that, at one point or another, our fearless comrades at SFLC need to show the profit-chasing corporations that besides copyleft , they love copyright , too! Well, not really, but there is truly nothing wrong in bending the rules for just this instance , this instance , this instance and this instance , for the benefit of all of the GNU/Motherland, and for the side goodies in the form of large suitcases full of cash.
Let us not forget our enemies, who have, in a “nasty and draconian” manner, prosecuted proletariats “merely for leaving copying facilities unguarded and failing to censor their use”, but let us be ever diligent, catch and sue those who fail to redistribute source code that you can otherwise download from the BusyBox website .
Long live GNU!
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“Bad news, guys: you can’t get away with it.”
I fear they will, Mr Vaughan-Nichols.
I’m waiting for the King James version of the GPL. That should sort those profiteering corporate bastards out.
Wow, the SFLC turns its hand to patent trolling, a la SCO. To make it even more interesting, BusyBox’s Rob Landley says:
“Some people are assuming I’m involved in the most recent round of BusyBox lawsuits. I’m not. I lost faith in the SFLC’s judgement about what is and isn’t a good lawsuit to file back when they filed suit against Cisco for a 5 year old toolchain that Cisco got from a vendor (Broadcom) and which predated the original BusyBox vs Linksys lawsuit circa 2003.”
(http://landley.net/notes.html)
I doubt it will stop Eben, though. He’s tasted blood by going after a couple of poor little guys — and I assume the “settlement out of court” amounts to “Piss off, Eben, and we’ll update our website with the necessary links.” Now he can use Holy Freetard Precedent to go after Verizon and Cisco.
I’d find this disturbing, if I didn’t think that Verizon and Cisco have the lawyers and resources to cut his nuts off and hand them back to him on a plate.
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