On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 07:48:28PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 16 August 2018 18:46:26 Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 16 Aug 2018 at 18:36:52 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > [Almost everything snipped - for obvious reasons.] > > > > > Someone who is an actual member of the organization will probably > > > clarify it further, but I didn't want you to think you are being > > > ignored. > > > > Ignoring it would have been the better choice. I do not think you > > would have hurt his feelings by doing so. :) > > From the line of his msg, it was obvious he, and apparently no one else > at his place, had ever heard of the gpl-v2. The main point of that being > that they can't take it and put their own license on it. That battle has > been won in most of the courts on this wet rock already by the gpl being > found valid. But I would expect they will walk away without another word > when they find there is no warranty. People like that have a need for > somebody to sue if it doesn't Just Work, for their definition of works. > They are totally unwilling to accept any liability and will run like > turpentine doused cats to find somebody to blame. And thats one less > thing this camp has to worry about when they do back away. > > Basicly, Brian, IMNSHO, the gpl is saying TANSTAAFL, a concept their MBA > degree professors never explained. I'm afraid I have to chuckle > everytime I see it being enforced. An MBA degree means they've had > common sense beat out of them. And they willingly subjected themselves > to it. > > Take care now Brian.
Or it's just an age old email harvesting scam - someone building a list of "certified email addresses" to on-sell as many times as they can...
