GPL Violators On The Prowl

ravenII writes "GPL Violations.org are looking after the GPL. Warning letters were personally handed over to companies at their CeBIT booths by Mr. Harald Welte, free software developer and founder of the gpl-violations.org project. It seems big boys like Motorola, Acer, AOpen, Micronet, Buffalo and Trendware seem to violate GPL. Please visit the site for more information on GPL enforcements and violators."

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Googlebot is the weak point of the search model

[Maljin Jolt]

The core of the problem is googlebot itself. Since it is distinguished from ordinary user by it's own identification and behavioral patterns, it disqualifies itself from Turing test in comparision with ordinary user. So it is easy to be spoofed at.

There may be usefull another layer for googlebot, which checks for authenticity of links/redirections by mimicking human behavior, disguised as some widely used browser. There is no need to check everything, that would create a detectable pattern again, but just a heuristicaly selected subset of the web site.