Re: IBM doesn't like the GPL

[Rjack]

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Hyman Rosen wrote:
> > Rjack wrote:
> > > the FSF propaganda campaign is falling flat on its ass
> >
> > On the contrary, the campaign successfully led to Sun releasing
> >  Java under the GPL,
>
> Putting SUN's stock price into free fall, bringing massive 
> layoffs, and fire sale of the company.
>
> GNU's made a great job at SUN.
>
> http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=41578
>
> "Eben Moglen, general counsel for the FSF and founder and 
> chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, said Sun's 
> announcement is one of the key moments in the software industry's
>  movement away from proprietary software to free software.

We should add that Eben Moglen is the brilliant Columbia University
Law Professor who announced to the the World that a copyright
license is not a contract and that is what makes the GPL enforceable
under U.S. copyright law.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html

He is also the leader of the Software Freedom Law Center which has
managed to file five consecutive copyright infringement suits for
plaintiffs who have no registered copyrights, a fact which leaves
the suits without jurisdiction to be heard in federal court.

ROFL ROFL ROFL

> “Sun is making a policy decision, which I think is unquestionably
>  real,” said Moglen, who is a professor of law and legal history 
> at Columbia University Law School. “It has profound effects for 
> the industry.”
>
> The fact that Sun's Java technology runs on over 3.8 billion 
> devices worldwide compounds the impact of Sun's decision, Moglen 
> said.
>
> “Java is a language crucial to the expression of computer 
> technology from everything from cell phones to handheld 
> appliances to mainframes,” he said. “Sun Microsystems' decision 
> to put all of its Java technology under a ‘copyleft' licence 
> means that the copy left commons has had an enormous accession of
>  value and significance.”"
>
> > where it will now reside
>
> If IBM acquires SUN you can be assured that open sourced version 
> of Java will end up as either eclipse or apache project with its 
> license changed away from the GPL pretty soon.
>
> Buh-bye GPL'd Java.
>
> regards, alexander.
>
> -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive 
> derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as 
> GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU 
> cannot.)