Re: Zonker on Open Source licenses ..

[Rjack]

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Rjack wrote: [...]
> > GPL supporters simply parrot their F.S.F. programmed response.
> >
> > Fire up google sometime and attempt to find any citations by 
> > the F.S.F. legal folks supporting their facetious legal claims.
> >  (e.g. 'a license is not a contract').
>
> Well, comrade Moglen is on record:
>
> http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/07/04/stories/2007070450740400.htm
>
> ------ What are your reflections on the work with the FSF?
>
> What we did was get thousands of people from around the world 
> collaborate on a legal document which replaces law. It 
> establishes an alternative rule set for the entire global 
> environment.

A *legal* document that replaces *law*? Yeah. . . "We never lose we
just mooooooooooooove the goalposts.

> If you want to use these rules anywhere on earth you can. It is 
> very important in a global century. What we did was a very early
>  example of 21st century global legislation. ------
WTF happens if I *don't* want to use his rules which have "replaced"
law? Do I get lashed with a wet noodle?

> IOW this pompous moron pretends that the FSF/SFLC is some sort of
>  global legislative body and judicial authority at the same time.
>  He is insane.
>
> Note that the clown also claimed:
>
> ------ To increase its popular usage, does free and open source 
> software require good PR?
>
> If you are Microsoft, you have to pay money to make software. You
>  have to hire people, buildings, paper clips, telephones, 
> pensions.... Then sell software with salesmen... Then have 
> lawyers to protect the software.
>
> We don’t have to pay anybody to make the software. Smart people 
> all over the world make our software. Biggest corporations around
>  the world clamour to distribute the software because it is 
> profitable. And we don’t have armies of lawyers to protect it 
> because we don’t protect it, we just say take it and do good 
> things with it. Just share and share alike.

Army of lawyers? They don't even have *one* competent lawyer at the
SFLC who can file a complaint that will hold up to a challenge
under F.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(1) -- they are experts however, who know how
to file voluntary dismissals under F.R.Civ.P. 41(a)(1).
He. He.

Sincerely,
Rjack :)