On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 20:16 -0700, jdow wrote: > From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > All that notwithstanding, IP attorneys can be aggressive with opinion > > but it is companies and thus the consumer that ultimately pays their > > bills and that is perhaps the best argument for GPL since one of the > > intentions of the GPL was to level the playing field and permit the > > software consumer to own software to the point where they aren't subject > > to arbitrary corporate whim or obtuse IP attorneys bills. > > That worked REAL well with regards to the SCO attorneys, didn't it? ---- one corporations attorneys squaring off against another corporations attorneys...hardly anything anyone can stop but: 1 - it's not a GPL issue 2 - it's partially funded (SCO) by Microsoft investment 3 - judging by their total lack of a substantive or even a minor victory so far, SCO is going down in flames Do you go looking for the negative side of every issue or do they just seem to find you? Craig
