(OT) - NOT A Major Blow to Copyleft Theory

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Sat Feb 9 15:56:10 UTC 2008


Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2008 3:56 PM, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> [...]
>> What I'm "implying" is that your argument is specious.
> 
> Hand waving.

I said very clearly why it's specious.  The government simply doesn't 
enforce the law, the vast majority of the time.

>>> Feel free to bring this to the attention of Microsoft Legal, then.
>>> And let me know what they will tell you. TIA.
>> It's not my job to enforce Microsoft's copyright, and I don't see how
>> any of this is relevant to this list.
> 
> Quoting Rick Moen (rick at linuxmafia.com):
> 
>> I'd personally like to see Terenkov _test_ his theory, using, say, a
>> downloaded copy of ...  We then bring this to the attention of ...
>> Legal, which should give the man's hypothesis a suitably vigourous
>> validation.

/I/ didn't say that.  I don't care a whit about Adobe enforcing their 
proprietary EULA either, and I don't see how it concerns the Open Source 
Initiative.

Matt Flaschen



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