Is it Criminal use of Linux, or more
like criminal use of the world's worst copyright and patent.
My take on this is that as Microsoft owns C++ anything written in
C++ like code falls under copyright. I'm probably way of centre
here but it certainly seems that way.
Maybe this needs to be bought to the attention of groups like
http://sumofus.org/
and
avaaz@xxxxxxxxx
I note that avaaz gets hundreds of thousands of respondents to
certain causes and seems to have affected Government decisions.
There are probably other groups with similar interests of bringing
things out into the open.
Golly there are Web and corporate experts, and the like in the
Linux fraternity, surely a campaign could be put together to save
all of the Nix's
According to Radio National Microsoft posted it's first corporate
loss last week. Is the license thing just a revenue raiser?
Roger
On 08/01/2012 01:10 PM, Frank Cox
wrote:
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 18:49:01 +0200
Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
Why is this not being brought into a courtroom, rather than companies just
paying licenses?
Cost.
License Fee: $1
Legal cost to fight it in court: $2
Chance of winning in court: < 100% (Note: 99.9999% is still < 100%)
What course of action would be best for your company in this situation like
this?
Somehow I think that a battle like this would have to be "won" by
the Average Joe's (and Jane's) out there who've had enough of
Redmond's asinine tactics. Sometimes it takes the army of ANTS to
completely paralyze and destroy the elephant. I know it's always
one of those "Yeah....but what can I do?....I'm just ONE
person" But if you REALLY consider it...we're a lot stronger in
numbers...and when I see some of the e-mail addresses here....from
places like Sweden...or Russia...and almost every corner of the
world...why CAN'T we stop 'em?.....what're they gonna do come and
slap a license on EVERY machine on the planet running Fedora?...or
for that matter running ANY version of Linux?...highly unlikely.
And it's not like we have to walk around with batons or
guns....just a simple "shedding of light" on Microsoft's tactics
could get this so far in front of the spotlight that they'd be
shamed into retreating....it may sound silly but it's better than
cowering in a corder and cursing the day they were born!....just
my opinion!...
EGO II
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