Re: More FSF hypocrisy

[amicus_curious]

"Thufir Hawat" <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:55:46 +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
>
> > "Thufir Hawat" <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:bGwyl.50925$eT1.40557@newsfe20.iad...
> > > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:17:58 -0400, amicus_curious wrote:
> > >
> > > > > If EULA are contracts, what makes the GPL different from other EULA,
> > > > > in your view?
> > > > It is not any different at all.  Both are contracts.
> > > >
> > > > Now, what do you think happens when such a contract is breached?
> > >
> > > IANAL, are you?
> >
> > IANALs also have a right to think, y'know.
> >
> > The GNU land is hilarious brain-free zone: "thinking will not be
> > tolerated."
>
>
> The typical response when an EULA is ignored by an end user is that the
> company, it's usually a company, goes after the user on copyright
> infringement, so far as I know.
That is rarely, if ever, done in the case of an individual user.  Where the 
use is substantial and commercial, the BSA is commissioned to hunt down the 
perpetrators, certainly, but, unlike the RIAA, individuals are not being 
pursued for personal use.  That may change, but it has not been the case so 
far.