Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270746AbUJVIqs (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:46:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270782AbUJVIqs (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:46:48 -0400 Received: from gate.firmix.at ([80.109.18.208]:34962 "EHLO gate.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270746AbUJVIqo (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:46:44 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <41757478.4090402@drdos.com> References: <417550FB.8020404@drdos.com> <1098218286.8675.82.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <41757478.4090402@drdos.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Message-Id: <1098434791.17993.9.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.5.5 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:46:31 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1248 Lines: 30 [ shortened CC: because it is not that inreseting ] On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 14:09 -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: [...] > No. They seem to have some factual concrete evidence IP covered under > Employee > agreements was used and subsequently converted into Linux, and they are > very > confident of this. From a cursory viewpoint, it looks valid. I think They did not and do not show in court anything (and didn't showed anything that passed the simple checks in other places) though they were askes several times by the judge. So AFAICT and IMHO (and IANAL) there is no reason to believe they have anything (except false accusations, rumors, FUD, creative selection of truth, and lies). So even from cursory viewpoint one should primarily see the pure facts and afterwards (with separate quality) believe in words. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - 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/