Re: Versa trashes the GPL as well

[RJack]

David Kastrup wrote:
> RJack <user@example.net> writes:
>
> > David Kastrup wrote:
> > > Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
> > >
> > > > On information and belief, Defendant alleges that Plaintiffs’ 
> > > > claims are barred by the doctrine of estoppel."
> > > Yeah, that one is hilarious as well.  "Dear court, how could we 
> > > assume that we had license conditions to heed when making use of
> > > a license? They promised we could use their software under GPL,
> > > that certainly must be enough to stop them from asking us to heed
> > > it."
> > >
> > > We'll see how much of the defendants beliefs survives in court.
> > Once the GPL is invalidated, promissory estoppel will allow some 
> > proprietary company to improve Linux and turn it into a real
> > operating system. Microsoft hates the thought that folks will
> > understand the GPL is unenforceable. That's the reason Microsoft
> > embraced the GPL -- it suppressed new competition.
> >
> > Perhaps the Linux kernel will continue to be improved under a free 
> > (free as in freedom) license such as BSD or Apache.
>
> You should keep away from the keyboard during your wet dreams.

Never happen. Your pear shaped, delectable butt is always on one's
mind. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh...

Sincerely,
RJack :)