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McBride's New Open Letter on Copyrights
dtfinch writes "An open letter was posted today by Darl McBride, where he restates his claim that the GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, patent laws, copyright laws, and the DMCA. Mostly he just builds up a false image of the Free Software Foundation and open source supporters claiming that they have no respect for intellectual property and believe copyrights should be eliminated, then attacks that image, AKA the straw man attack. Nothing we haven't seen before."
to pay your $699 fee you clock smoking teabaggers
You fight them, but they turn out to be right in the end...
And if linuxtoday.com says it, it must be true!
What do Darl and dirty diapers have in common?
They are both full of shit and they both stink.
Time to change the diaper and the Darl.
Hmmmm, where have I heard this before??? Oh yeah, you losers have been claiming this all along, but SCO just keeps winning. I guess it helps SCO that they have the truth on their side.
He even has a little of that "complaint generator" sound in his writing style.
Un-news
Meaning that 'Merican companies need looking after, shielding them from the rest of the evil world to keep all advantages 'Merican, because otherwise non-'merican companies would go steamrolling over 'merican companies and crush them with innovation and technological breakthroughs?
"If anyone needs me, I'm in the angry dome."
Well this won't be the most popular opinion so I'll just post it AC. I read the open letter. Instead of rabidly attacking it I am conceding that maybe, just maybe, all those stipulated facts are just that: facts. Maybe the Supreme Court justices did side 7-2 in favor of SCO's opinion on copyrights. Maybe Congress did side with SCO's philosophy when they passed the DCMA. Maybe copyrights and patents ARE valuable because they've been in place since the mid 1970s and produced a technological powerhouse of a country (while patents have gotten out of control that doesn't lessen their value). Lastly (and this will flamebait me for sure) maybe this board and OSS fans in general are are bunch of disgruntled coding piss ants who are either (1) too lazy or (2) too incompetant to found companies of their own.
I too am a coding piss ant, but I'm also a partner in a company with 4 other piss ants who have all had enough. We've been at this 4 years and are less than a year or two away from founding. And we did it on programmer's salaries with NO OUTSIDE MONEY OR VC FUNDING of any kind. So yes it can be done. Why are you still wasting your time giving your skills away when you could be destined for so much more?