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.
I did not envision myself spending several years (even 4 years after leaving that company) challenging the system for tolerating and even covering up corruption
If only more platforms did the same, plenty of energy would be spared, "old" machines would be totally suitable (even with 20 tabs open), as we'd focus on substance, not bells and whistles
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