On Friday 25 September 2020 12:43:16 Tom Dial wrote: > On 9/25/20 00:51, john doe wrote: > > On 9/25/2020 7:46 AM, David Christensen wrote: > >> On 2020-09-24 15:43, [email protected] wrote: > > ( omitted material ) > > > Please stop polluting this list with your private stuff. > > I do not consider this thread pollution, for what that's worth. As an > owner of a few Seagate disks and an almost exclusive user of Linux for > more than 25 years, I find this frank and honest exchange interesting > and informative, both technically and in what it says about Seagate's > customer support quality and policy. > Neither do I, I find it quite informative that after almost 30 years of the gpl's existence, that seagate is still violating it, obviously intentionally. And its quite likely to be ignored until a suit has been filed that requires their legal people to actually read that document to see what the hell all the hulabaloo is all about. Without any known exceptions that I am aware of, they will rectify that, before the courts set the deck very low to mow their legal grass. The FSF may need our financial support in that event. Seagate has deep pockets.
> Regards, > Tom Dial > > > -- > > John Doe Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
