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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/contact/ 2015-03-03 12:59 GMT-03:00 Michal Suchanek <[email protected]>: > On 26 February 2015 at 13:53, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> From many years of industrial experience I do know that most probably > >> those companies do not intentionally violate GPL. They are just busily > >> struggling to survive in these extremely fast moving markets and do not > >> have time and resources to care for this kind of 'details'. This does > not > >> excuse it or embellish anything, but that is how organizations operate. > > > > If I cannot stay in business operating legally, my business model is > wrong and I deserve to go bankrupt. Operating like this for several years > is nothing short of criminal. > > > > Where is the respect for the authors of the original software in this > discussion? > > > > Yeah, the authors of the software you built your business on do > deserve some respect. > > Then again, legal and criminal is not all that clear. It turns out > that in China not adhering to US law does not necessarily drive you > out of business. Or not honoring the rights some US geek theoretically > has even under Chinese copyright law if such thing even exists. > > And again, even western companies like nVidia are not much different > from Allwinner. They delivered (or let their hw oem partners deliver) > butchered binary Android SDKs when it seemed practical and now they > are starting mainline kernel work when that seems practical. > > And again, if you are in software business in the west then any patent > troll can sue you out of business anytime unless you are the size of > IBM. Seriously, it does not matter that in the EU software patents are > (maybe still) illegal. The patent office did and still does grants > them. And it does not matter that the patent may not actually apply to > your work. You still have to hire a lawyer and go to court if they sue > you. And the cost of that may very well be orders of magnitude higher > than the sales of small software firm. > > Thanks > > Michal > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "linux-sunxi" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
