On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Joseph Carter wrote: >On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 08:46:19AM -0600, John Galt wrote: >> Ask Dmitriy Sklyarov how ineffectual it is.... > >Isn't he the guy who treatened to sue over archives? If so, then yeah, I >was shocked and dismayed to see something resembling a backbone for a nice >change of pace. Regarding legal absurdities relating to xine-css, drivers >for the CueCat, and other would-be proprietary stuff, we'll see. I don't >have a lot of faith in this sort of thing until the DMCA in the US and >probably similar laws elsewhere are struck down as the sad jokes that they >are.
No, he's the russian being held without bail for cracking Adobe's encryption. > >> >I can just envision being able to declare it sinful to violate the GPL. >> >It would throw a few BSD guys I know into fits. ;) Definite potential >> >there just for the sake of watching them sputter about the evils of GNU >> >for an hour or so. =D >> >> Most of the BSD types that care about the BSD/GPL thing already think that >> the GPL advocates have a holier than thou attitude anyways... > >They're partly right - the attitude comes from the FSF and many people >using the license. Whether or not it's bad is a personal judgement. In >any event, the GPL is basically the best license for what it does at the >moment. People wouldn't use it if there were something better. So far, >there isn't. This is true, so logically I'd avoid any assignment to the FSF if there were any BSD zealots. Perhaps the EFF or CAUCE... -- Here is wisdom. Let him that hath wisdom count the number of the BSD: for it is the number of a man; and his number is VI VI VI. (ir-reve-rent-lations 13:17-19) Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
