Verizon calls SFLC bluff

[rjack]

The SFLC admitted today that Verizon Communications Inc. called their 
bluff over GPL enforcement.

"BusyBox Developers Agree To End GPL Lawsuit Against Verizon...
The settlement calls for Actiontec to appoint an Open Source Compliance 
Officer as well as ensuring that Actiontec properly makes available the 
BusyBox source code that it uses.  Additionally Actiontec will pay 
BusyBox an 'undisclosed' financial sum."
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/mar/17/busybox-verizon/

For all the GPL supporters out there, a spelling lesson is in order:

"Verizon" is not spelled A-c-t-i-o-n-t-e-c. Notice the sneaky 
substitution of Actiontec for Verizon?

Verizon and Actiontec are legally distinct corporations.

1) Andersen and Landley via SFLC sued Verizon.

2) Verizon told the SFLC to kiss their royal corporate ass.

3) The SFLC in order to save face, quickly substituted "Actiontec" for 
"Verizon" and then claimed a "settlement" victory with Actiontec -- a 
"defendant" party that was never even captioned in the lawsuit.

The SFLC now has a perfect record of voluntarily dismissing every GPL 
lawsuit they have ever filed prior to a federal judge so much as 
reading the title of the GPL.

The average cowpie is approximately 4 inches high. The SFLC has now 
built a pile of voluntary dismissal bullshit one foot high concerning 
GPL "enforcability".

Sincerely,
Rjack