Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 4 Sep 2000 14:03:39 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: GPL violations: make it harder |
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On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Elmer Joandi wrote:
> Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > My and co-worker's code for doing full taskfile access under linux was > > rejected here but is being used in MicroSoft Whistler 2001. They are > > quick to grab the very best of Linux and adopt it for their own. > > ? You mean that they did it illegally and you can show a way to prove it ?
No,
Since I got reamed over the taskfile dis-destroyer crap and people were blaming me for the potential future outbreak of viruses, I contacted my counterpart in T13 (Mircosoft) and explained the mess and they liked the solution modeled and are planning to use it.
> If it is true and cant be justified in court, then it can be justified trough > good reverse-engineering programs, by lynching. > > > I have been following it in this list for longer - you cut the thing you are > sitting on when telling people who say "I saw GNU licence violation" > to not to bother or turn to other organization...
There was no "GNU licence violation", because there is no GNU licence in a patch.
> There is overproduction of generic-purpose software in world and > of course lots of companies are going to bancrupt soon, but if you > continue this way, GPL is going the same way...
Do not follow the thought, sorry.
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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