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Re: FYI, kernel firmware non-freeness discussions



On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:56:53PM +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> On 1/13/06, Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > Terekhov's more delusional conspiracy theories.
> 
> Hey, if you mean "Wallace v GPL"...
> 
> The FSF has already admitted price-fixing (albeit "vertical") and also
> conceded "distribution of software to consumers at no cost other than
> the cost of the media" (see FSF's brief #35). It is not that hard to
> escape the GPL already (know-how is in "Distributing GPL software"
> thread) and Wallace has a good chance to put the entire GPL'd code
> base into quasi public domain (on the grounds of copyright misuse
> raised to the level of antitrust violation) just to save bandwidth.

*plonk*

-- 
Glenn Maynard



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