Re: Blowhard Bradley Kuhn and his fraud

[Hyman Rosen]

On 6/16/2011 3:57 PM, RJack wrote:
> On 6/15/2011 3:54 PM, Hyman Rosen wrote:
> > On 6/15/2011 3:45 PM, RJack wrote:
> > > On 6/15/2011 3:32 PM, Hyman Rosen wrote:
> > > > On 6/15/2011 3:17 PM, RJack wrote:
> > > > > The GPL license was dead the day it was stillborn.
> > > >
> > > > The GPL is in wide use, so you are wrong.
> > >
> > > Yep. And pigs hold hands while flapping their wings ROFL. Reality
> > > will eventually bite you in the ass Hyman. LMAO.
> >
> > In reality, the GPL is in wide use. Even Insignia makes GPLed
> > sources available for at least one product, here:
> > <http://insignia.chumby.com/pages/source_code>
>
> Yeah -- dismissal WITH PREJUDICE and forking over $75,000 in
> attorneys' fees to Best Buy Inc. counsel ia a real victory Hyman.

According to the document that AT posted, <http://terekhov.de/204.pdf>:
        Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41, plaintiffs
    Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. and Erik Anderson and defendant
    BEST BUY CO.,INC hereby dismiss their claims against each other from
    within this action WITH PREJUDICE with respect to any past claims for
    certain Insignia Blu-ray products (NS-WBRDVD, NS-BRDVD3, NS-BRHTIB,
    NS-BRDVD3-CA, NS-WBRDVD2, NS-BRDVD4, NS-BRDVD4-CA, NS-BRDVD, NS-2BRDVD,
    and NS-BDLIVB01) and without costs to any party. Plaintiffs maintain
    this action against all other defendants.

Why do you claim, in contradiction to this document, that SFLC
paid any costs to Best Buy?

> The blithering idiots at SFC and SFLC can't even file a proper
> copyright registration certificate. How would they ever defend
> the use of an obviously unenforceable, crackpot license like the GPL?

Insignia provides GPLed code for its Chumby device
(<http://insignia.chumby.com/pages/source_code>)
and indicates its intention of compliance with the GPL in its DVD manuals
(e.g., 
<http://insigniaproducts.com/cms/documents/NS-WBRDVD2-WBRDVD2-CA_10-0920_MAN_ENG_V5_Final%20press.pdf>)
so it does not regard the GPL as either crackpot or unenforceable. It does
seem to have trouble coming into actual as opposed to claimed compliance.