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Re: Hey Terekhov: Wallace lost. Who'd guess.... ;)


From: Alexander Terekhov
Subject: Re: Hey Terekhov: Wallace lost. Who'd guess.... ;)
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 11:59:07 +0200

David Kastrup wrote:
[...]
> Novell has quite different prices from RedHat.  So the price fixing
> does not seem to be very effective.  

The price of GPL'd IP (apart from outright transfers of copyrights) 
pooled and cross licensed by Red Hat and Novell is fixed at zero 
(pursuant to the GPL)... unless of course you believe in "negative 
price" theory raised by one defendant in Wallace's case (please 
drop me a link to negatively priced GPL'd IP, please, please). And 
setting "only the maximum price" at predatory level is also illegal 
(in the context of antitrust conspiracy under Section 1 of the 
Sherman Act).

regards,
alexander.


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