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Maui X-Stream at it Again?
Goyuix writes "In their latest commercial venture, Maui X-Stream, the now infamous company behind Cherry OS, has recently launched a suite of tools that once again takes advantage of GPL'd code to get their dirty work done... This time it is a set of video encoding, streaming and display tools. A choice quote from SourceForge: 'There are boundled dshow filters, string, toolbars, dialogs, command line switches, etc..., which can be verified easily by just running the applications and taking a look, or a bit harder by analysing the memory dump'. Is the situation getting worse or is community just getting better at finding the violators?"
Replace "kill" with "sue" if you live in such a legal enviroment.
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
Google returns 1000+ hits for boundled. Typo or neologism?
$799.00, holy cow, whatta deal!!
BTW, what happened to 1.0?
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
I am intrigued by this FrepSeachIncredible. How much are you looking for again?
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Quote from the movie blazing saddles.
Taggart: I got it. I got it.
Hedley Lamarr: You do?
Taggart: We'll work up a "Number 6" on 'em.
Hedley Lamarr: "Number 6"? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that one...
Taggart: Well, that's where we go a-ridin' into town, a whampin' and whompin' every livin' thing that moves within an inch of its life. Except the women folks, of course.
Hedley Lamarr: You spare the women?
Taggart: NAW. We rape the shit out of them at the Number 6 Dance later on.
Hedley Lamarr: Marvelous.
I don't think it's the community getting better, at least not in this case. If you have a crook who is known to steal televisions and then put them in his front yard, disguised as birdbaths, you're going to get suspicious every time a new birdbath appears in his yard.
well, GPL violations are not equal to stealing. The original sourcecode is still there. Maybe a copyright violation of some kind, so your analogy doesn't hold.
I don't understand why the community has a problem with this in the first place. The original source code is still under the GNU license.
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Let's put a final to this. We MUST make a precedent. And we have to make a model punishment.
Yes, we have to invoke... Katana Tux! (grrrrr)
So you're saying we need some kind of GNU Brute Squad (GNUBS)?? Sounds good, count me in! I've been looking for a piece of them for years.
Maybe I'll go start a sourceforge page for that.
[In his best Dr. Evil voice] "One biilllion dollars! Muahaha!"
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
His name is Eddie and I believe he'll be appearing in the Christmas episode of "Reno 911" ;-)
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
Your argument only holds water if you're assuming that potential cusomers are informed and discerning.
If FrepSeachIncredible can pull off the same trick as Sunkist Oranges (where consumers are paying a hefty premium for a little purple stamp) it could work brilliantly.
Personally, I am hoping to get in on the ground floor of FrepSeachIncredible. Maybe we could even get SCO to sue us as part of the marketing blitz.
You mean GNU Brute International Elite Squad?
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
Microsoft, MPAA, and RIAA.
> Hello, I am Liza. ..
* Where are you distributing the vx30 source code pursuant to the conditions of the GPL?
> Would you prefer if I were not distributing the vx30 source code pursuant to the conditions of the GPL?
* A simple URL is all that is required.
> Come, come, elucidate your thoughts.
* What?
> Does that question interest you?
* What are you wearin
She was no help at all.
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