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From: | RJack |
Subject: | Re: Versa trashes the GPL as well |
Date: | Tue, 04 May 2010 16:07:29 -0000 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) |
David Kastrup wrote:
Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:RJack wrote: [...]b) They'll tell the court that the doctrine of promissory estoppel applies.That's Versa's tenth defense. "TENTH AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE (ESTOPPEL) 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. Sincerely, RJack :)
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