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SubjectRe: Promise SATA driver GPL'd
Hi,

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> GPL provides no means to enable the author/copyright holder to defend and
> recover legal fees occurred during discovery and litigation.

What you're forgetting is that the goal of the GPL is to promote freedom
not prosecution. You don't do this via litigations, this way you only
alienate everyone, but you don't win support for free software.
The free software movement is a social movement not a legal movement. In
court you only reach short term effects, but if people vote with their
wallet you can achieve a lot more profound results.

bye, Roman

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