Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

[Snit]

Ben Pfaff stated in post 87iqn153fs.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org on 2/22/09 6:48 PM:

> "amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:
> 
>> "Ben Pfaff" <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote in message
>> 87myce5s72.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org">news:87myce5s72.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org...
>>> "amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:
>>> 
>>>> No one takes apart complex applications in order to change
>>>> them, there is no value in having all those restrictions as
>>>> posed by the GPL.
>>> 
>>> What a bizarre, incorrect claim!  I spend a lot of time taking
>>> apart complex applications in order to change them.  The Linux
>>> kernel is one example of a complex application that I spend a lot
>>> of time hacking.
>>> -- 
>> Perhaps you do, but the other 10,000 people nearest you do not.
> 
> The half-a-dozen people who sit nearest to me at my office can,
> and sometimes do.
> 
> My point is that your assertion that "no one" does these things
> is egregiously ill-informed, and I think that I have made that
> point.
> 
>> Are you one of the kernel developers?  It is hard to interpret
>> the Google information around your name.
> 
> I doubt any of the kernel developers would recognize my name.
> I've made a few small kernel contributions, but none recently.
> 
> I've been doing a lot of Linux kernel work in at the office.
> We haven't yet tried to contribute it upstream.  Perhaps later
> this year.

What type improvements are you working on?


-- 
[INSERT .SIG HERE]