Re: Zonker on Open Source licenses ..

[Alexander Terekhov]

Sonny! Uncle Hasler has spoken!

"John Hasler" <john@dhh.gt.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> Hyman Rosen writes:
> > Even if they are correct, it's still up to the rights holders to do
> > something about it if they haven't been asked.
>
> But of course we have no way to know that they haven't been asked: such
> things need not be made public.

The latest rumor in the GNU land is that all non-Plaintiff BusyBox copyright 
holders still alive (or their hairs) reachable by the Plaintiffs/SFLC in the 
GPL actions (voluntarily dismissed in the NYSD federal court) have asked and 
received the same undisclosed amount of financial consideration as "an 
undisclosed amount of financial consideration paid to the plaintiffs" 
<http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/mar/17/busybox-verizon/>. The 
breaking news is that all those undisclosed amounts have been paid in the 
GNU dollars! The GNU dollar is a copyleft-like hack to the USA dollar. 
Similarly to the GNU GPL designed to turn the copyright law on its head, the 
GNU dollar is designed to turn the USA dollar on its head: one (1) GNU 
dollar equals to -1 (minus one) USA dollar (or any other currency of a 
country with the copyright law in place in FOREX exchange rate to the USA 
dollar with the positive result turned negative). To illustrate: You pay one 
hundred GNU dollars for some GNUware (buy software under the GNU GPL) and 
bingo: You become richer by one hundred USA dollars (paid by seller). In the 
GNU Republic, the only currency allowed in trade is the GNU dollar.

regards,
alexander.

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