Re: Dell vs. GPL

[Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>]

No Silly is talking out of your acehole when you do not understand the
scope of the document and have not paid your lawyers to review and explain
the issues.

Everyone here forgets, GPL is WORTHLESS without a "REGISTERED" copyright.
You have no means for litigation in a court of law, without the registered
copyright.  Additionally, if you get to court you have to prove the value
of the item in question.  The general test is providing an alternative
commerial version which people have paid for in the past and today.

Without a value and proof you got ZERO, just a few facts from reality.

See it is a rubber duck document, all symbol and no life.

Later.

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Svein Ove Aas wrote:

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> lørdag 28. juni 2003, 17:05, skrev Doug McNaught:
> > AIUI, they need to supply full source, not just a patch against code
> > you get from someone else.
> 
> Now that's just silly.
> 
> The kernel is *how* many megabytes?
> And it's very easily available. You may be right, but if you are it's for very 
> legalistic reasons that don't matter in real life.
> 
> Personally I'd rather download a small patch than a multi-megabyte kernel 
> nearly identical to the one I have in /usr/src.
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