Am 17.03.2012 19:22, schrieb Temlakos: > On 03/17/2012 02:03 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 17.03.2012 18:45, schrieb Dave Ihnat: >>> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 06:24:08PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: >>>> what exactly let you imagine taht this has ANYTHING to do with OpenSource? >>> Well, playing _Advocatus Diaboli_, what if some moneyed software company >>> claims Open Source software being hosted for download is violating their >>> copyrights, and uses this excuse to shut down archives? >> sorry, but this is simply bullshit in any context >> > > Actually, it's been done. Remember /SCO v. IBM?/ The only reason that failed was that /SCO/ went bankrupt, the > investors grew outraged, and they went out looking for a new company president. But not before /SCO/ tried to > extort licensing fees from everyone using Linux. Darl McBride even went to Congress to try to suggest that the GPL > was unconstitutional, because it somehow defied the power of the United States Congress to grant patents and > copyrights. your memory is corrupt that some idiots paid money to SCO for nothing does not change the reality - nothing has been done
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