On Thu 14-12-06 20:51:36, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:17:49PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:33:47PM +0000, Alan wrote:
> > > > The trick is to let a lawyer send cease and desist letters to people
> > > > distributing the infringing software for 1 Euro at Ebay.
> > >
> > > Doesn't that sound even more like the music industry ? Pick on Grandma,
> > > and people who've no clue about the issue. It's not the way to solve such
> > > problems. The world does not need "The war on binary modules". Educate
> > > people instead, and talk to vendors.
> >
> > .... or like Microsoft, who is threatening to make war on end-users
> > instead of settling things with vendors. (One of the reasons why I
> > personally find the Microsoft promise not to sue _Novell_'s end users
> > so nasty. Microsoft shouldn't be threatening anyone's users; if they
> > have a problem, they should be taking it up with the relevant vendor,
> > not sueing innocent and relatively shallow-pocketed end-users and
> > distributors.)
> >
> > One of the things that I find so interesting about how rabid people
> > get about enforcing GPL-only modules is how they start acting more and
> > more like the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft every day....
>
> Please don't think or imply I'd plan to do this, I'm only saying that
> there's a risk for users in such grey areas.
>
> It could be that someone who wants to harm Linux starts suing people
> distributing Linux. If your goal is to harm Linux, suing users can
> simply be much more effective than suing vendors...
>
> It could even be that people distributing Linux could receive cease and
> desist letters from people without any real interest in the issue
> itself - "cease and desist letter"s are so frequent in Germany because
> the people who have to sign them have to pay the lawyers' costs that are
> usually > 1000 Euro, and that's a good business for the lawyers.
Something is very wrong with German legal system, I'm afraid.
Pavel
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