Summary: New video outlines an ongoing pursuit for compliance from Samsung, which is part of Microsoft's patent racket
Our reader Ryan Farmer ("DaemonFC") has been on the case for several weeks now and finally he got Samsung to admit that it's violating the GPL licence.
It seems that SFLC is suing them too, along with Best Buy and Westinghouse:
http://lwn.net/Articles/366467/
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-06-08 00:10:58
I never noticed that they had been included, so thanks.
csmart
2010-06-07 23:25:36
The interesting thing about violating the GPLv2 is that you then lose all rights to distribute anything under the GPLv2, until your rights are explicitly re-instated by the copyright holders you violated the license of. This legally speaking means that Samsung has lost the right to ship any product running Linux, until they get re-instated. This is something which was changed in the GPLv3, your rights get re-instated when you come into compliance.
Microsoft must be laughing its arse off, seeing how a bunch of Serial Sloppers (no skills, no comprehension, no integrity, no creativity) and slopfarms use Microsoft LLM to flood the Web with anti-Linux FUD
There's no guarantee that writing the truth will result in an audience (or readership), but over time - in the long run - people generally gravitate towards what they know or feel to be crude truth, not just what's comforting (albeit false or self-deluding, usually groupthink dictated from above)
Democracy depends on free press and freedom of the press depends on being able to safely publish (and keep available) material that bad people don't want to be known to anybody
Comments
Yuhong Bao
2010-06-08 00:04:23
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-06-08 00:10:58
csmart
2010-06-07 23:25:36
-c
satipera
2010-06-07 19:49:31