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.
They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it
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