From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751453AbWAaUUl (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:20:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751456AbWAaUUl (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:20:41 -0500 Received: from c-67-177-35-222.hsd1.ut.comcast.net ([67.177.35.222]:3756 "EHLO ns1.utah-nac.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751453AbWAaUUk (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:20:40 -0500 Message-ID: <43DFBA27.40506@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:27:35 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Perkel Cc: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Chase Venters , "linux-os \\(Dick Johnson\\)" , Kyle Moffett , Patrick McLean , Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders References: <43D114A8.4030900@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20060120111103.2ee5b531@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> <43D13B2A.6020504@cs.ubishops.ca> <43D7C780.6080000@perkel.com> <43D7B20D.7040203@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43D7B5C4.5040601@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43D7D05D.7030101@perkel.com> <1138387136.26811.8.camel@localhost> <1138620390.31089.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43DF9D42.7050802@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43DFC0B3.3000909@perkel.com> <43DFB635.2000309@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43DFC59F.9080006@perkel.com> In-Reply-To: <43DFC59F.9080006@perkel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marc Perkel wrote: > > > Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > >> Marc Perkel wrote: >> >>> Linus, >>> >>> For what it's worth, maybe you should run some of these issues past >>> the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) or Robin Gross at >>> IPJustice.org who might be able to review these issues and help make >>> sure you're doing it right. >> >> >> >> Great advice, however, the EFF are not experts in IP law. I would >> suggest a good firm in Palo Alto, like Rosati, Goodrich and Sonsini, >> they are experts >> in corporate IP law and Corporate law in general. They would know >> all the loopholes people and companies are likely to use. Stay away >> from these >> freebie Law Groups who are more likely to kiss your butt and tell you >> waht you want to hear rather than what you NEED to hear. >> OSDL should pick up the tab. It will cost around 30K for a good >> analysis from them. >> >> Jeff >> > > Actually EFF does have some good IP lawyers on staff and Robin Gross - > a former EFF employee (robin@ipjustice.org) is also very up on this. > And the prices is right too if you don't want to spend the big bucks. > I would rather get legal advice from lawyer who care about GPL than > lawyers who just want to run up a big fee and screw you in the end. No. I think tey would salivate to be able to work on Linux stuff with Linus. Wilson Sonsini, who was on the Novell Board at the time, directed the lawsuit against me at TRG -- he nailed me no matter what squirming I did. I have had other dealings with them. They would do a great job for Linus. > > It might be worth looking into doing it right before some other SCO > type decides they can get rich by busting Linux. > > Not likely. Our building is right next to them and over the past few months, there's fewer and fewer cars in the parking lot and more lights turned off in offices in the evening. I doubt they are going to do anything to Linux. IBM is going to get nailed on some stuff, but I think Linux is unaffected, at least those parts RedHat, Suse, and the rest of us need to keep going. Jeff