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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the camouflaged-spamware dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "MSNBC.com has the latest on the controversial Smart Tags technology that got punted from Windows XP. This time it's not Microsoft doing the dirty deed, but a couple of 3rd-party companies. And they already have 500,000 users installed. I can see the lawyers salivating already."

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  1. Re:Who is in control? by cperciva · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Since you seem to want to bring Free Software into the discussion, consider the following "method for breaking the GPL":

    Step 1: Find some GPL'd software you want to exploit commercially.
    Step 2: Write your proprietary extensions.
    Step 3: Distribute your extensions as a patch to (a BSD-licensed version of) tar which, upon finding files with given names inside a .tar, applies your proprietary patches.

    By the argument you are using -- that companies have the right to distribute software which users have the right to use -- this would circumvent the GPL, while staying within the bounds of copyright law.

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    Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
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