Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

[Hyman Rosen]

Rjack wrote:
> Yeh. . . like when Verizon told 'em to kiss their Tyrian purple ass?
> http://www.terekhov.de/GPLvVerizon/VOLUNTARY_DISMISSAL.pdf
> Not everyone succumbs to bullshit propaganda and intimidation.

Opponents of the GPL would like to believe that Verizon is
deliberately violating the terms of the GPL and the SFLC is
too timid to challenge them. But there is no evidence for
this. Instead, the manufacturer of the routers that Verizon
provides, Actiontec, has a very prominent web page offering
the GPLed sources, with a large cartoon featuring a gnu, a
penguin, and a reversed copyright symbol.

<http://opensource.actiontec.com/>
<http://opensource.actiontec.com/images/gnu_tux_copy-left.jpg>

If this is losing, then proponents of free software will be
happy to compound their losses.