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Post by CptnObvious999 » Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:08 pm

Tsuroerusu wrote:
schotty wrote:They will. They always take heat, whether its deserved or not. For some reason a commercial linux is bad, but people want linux sold on dells ... ??? Oh well.
That's not what I am referring to, I'm talking about letters that ask them to cease that sorta distribution because the kernel hackers feel Freespire is infringing on their GPL copyrights, they could in theory threaten with law suits etc..
just out of pure curiosity who would be the ones to sue them? Linus Torvalds? The kernel developers as a whole? it's not like one person or company owns it.... meh that's just something I have never understood, who sues who in open source?

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Post by Tsuroerusu » Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:05 pm

CptnObvious999 wrote:
Tsuroerusu wrote:
schotty wrote:They will. They always take heat, whether its deserved or not. For some reason a commercial linux is bad, but people want linux sold on dells ... ??? Oh well.
That's not what I am referring to, I'm talking about letters that ask them to cease that sorta distribution because the kernel hackers feel Freespire is infringing on their GPL copyrights, they could in theory threaten with law suits etc..
just out of pure curiosity who would be the ones to sue them? Linus Torvalds? The kernel developers as a whole? it's not like one person or company owns it.... meh that's just something I have never understood, who sues who in open source?
The guy that sent Kororaa an angry letter could sue them. Or if had the copyright for even a little bit of code in the parts that the NVIDIA or ATi driver links to, you can sue Linspire for violating your copyright.
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