Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd

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

Roman,

Lets apply your wallet issue.

Business who use the products to solve a pain of theirs do not give a
thought to the legality of the software inside the box.  The builders of
the box offer some legal comforts to their customers.

So the fact these companies exist and exploit GPL and steal from the OSC,
this is okay.  Social ideas to promote lawlessness and allowing violations
to continue unchallenged is why companies do it.

So lets cheer Roman for the wisdom of letting it all be free and everyone
can take from the pie and never give back.

Later,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Roman Zippel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> 
> > GPL provides no means to enable the author/copyright holder to defend and
> > recover legal fees occurred during discovery and litigation.
> 
> What you're forgetting is that the goal of the GPL is to promote freedom 
> not prosecution. You don't do this via litigations, this way you only 
> alienate everyone, but you don't win support for free software.
> The free software movement is a social movement not a legal movement. In 
> court you only reach short term effects, but if people vote with their 
> wallet you can achieve a lot more profound results.
> 
> bye, Roman
> 
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