Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271353AbTGWWZm (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:25:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271357AbTGWWZm (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:25:42 -0400 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:5139 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271353AbTGWWZk (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:25:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:32:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick To: Roman Zippel cc: Alan Cox , Martin Diehl , Adrian Bunk , "Adam J. Richter" , andersen@codepoet.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1791 Lines: 51 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/