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Lawsuit Says GPL is a Price-Fixing Scheme

Posted by timothy on from the fixing-as-in-repairing dept.

Soko writes "Yes, it's real. The crack team of Daniel Wallace and Maureen O'Gara have ganged up once again to protect their version of "The American Dream," he by filing a lawsuit in Indiana court saying the GPL is nothing more than a price fixing scheme designed to drive software vendors out of business, she by parroting the proprietary vendors' "The GPL kills business" mantra (as well as a few well placed insults at the free software community). I found the story on Groklaw - no links to Ms. O'Gara or Mr. Wallace from me. I'm still kind of dumbfounded at the audacity of Mr. Wallace, but wonder if he has an angle that might have a slim chance of prevailing." This Google search reveals some of Daniel Wallace's views on the GPL.

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  1. Re:Springer show. by WalksOnDirt · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "buisness" is misspelled, too.

    I don't understand why people don't use spell checkers, at least for the blurbs. I run all my posts through the Firefox spell checker (SpellBound): It only takes a few seconds.

    That doesn't catch my grammar mistakes, but it makes my posts a little less embarrassing.

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  2. Re:Springer show. by hempalicious · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +5 Pissed my pants!

  3. Re:Communism by MrResistor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Naturally, NOW would be the time I suddenly DON'T have modpoints.

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    Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
  4. Re:You misunderstand the disdain for communism by lahvak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    when communism becomes evil is when it is compulsory

    There is nothing wrong with that. Except that it is like saying "when fire becomes dangerous is when it is hot".

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  5. Re:tough luck! by The+Angry+Mick · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Here's another one that should be interesting to the Slashdot crowd. NPR's Marketplace ran this story yesterday afternoon:

    We're about to step back into a time before PDA's and laptops, to an age when the word 'computer' meant something entirely different. No, we're not talking about primitive Commodore desktops. Or even those old vacuum-tubed Univacs that would fill up whole rooms. We're going back to a period nearly everyone seems to have forgotten. A time when computers were - human. David Grier teaches technology policy at George Washington University. He's now written the first in-depth account of a career that no longer exists. Grier describes 'human computers' as people who did the blue collar work of the mind.
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    I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.