Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:17:49 -0500 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] |
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On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:33:47PM +0000, Alan wrote: > > The trick is to let a lawyer send cease and desist letters to people > > distributing the infringing software for 1 Euro at Ebay. > > Doesn't that sound even more like the music industry ? Pick on Grandma, > and people who've no clue about the issue. It's not the way to solve such > problems. The world does not need "The war on binary modules". Educate > people instead, and talk to vendors.
.... or like Microsoft, who is threatening to make war on end-users instead of settling things with vendors. (One of the reasons why I personally find the Microsoft promise not to sue _Novell_'s end users so nasty. Microsoft shouldn't be threatening anyone's users; if they have a problem, they should be taking it up with the relevant vendor, not sueing innocent and relatively shallow-pocketed end-users and distributors.)
One of the things that I find so interesting about how rabid people get about enforcing GPL-only modules is how they start acting more and more like the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft every day....
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