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."

Comments

AGAIN?!?!

[wrinkledshirt]

Nothing we haven't seen before.

Indeed. It's just become so predictable by this point there's no sense paying attention to it anymore. It's so out of my own hands I'm just giving up, taking some personal hybernation time on this issue, and coming back when IBM's lawyers are finished with this.

In short: Ask not for whom the Darl trolls. He trolls for thee, not me.

Re:If it is nothing new... -- ENOUGH!

[screenrc]

That is standard nonsense, much like "if
you don't like what is on TV, why don't you
go to the theater." Or, if "if you don't like
this station, why don't you switch to another
one."

The problem with such comments is that it
ignores the fact that Slashdot has become
a tabloid magazine. No! I don't want to read
such articles, shift through them, or associate
with the crowd that has losts its balls to
complain!

Complaining is healthy human attribute; at least,
it is a lot better than the characteristics of
people who have don't have given up in
complaining and no longer object to being
bombarded to Slashdot's SCO spam.

Do you receive spam through email? Should you
then complain about it, orjust close
your account in protest and stop
using the Internet?

And how about drug-trafficing in your home time. You
should complain about that too and do something
about it, instead of just moving to another town.