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Lawsuit Says GPL is a Price-Fixing Scheme
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.
They've got a very good chance of winning, I think. Bill Gates already has a good portion of (people|shills) thinking that GPL == communism; strike one. Free software firms are by nature not very big donators at election time; strike two.
What about strike three? Good question. I only have two strikes, in fact, but the baseball analogy is fun nonetheless.
1. Write free code.
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2. Open source it.
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4. Profit!
sigh
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The truth is that Free Software does destroy business. If your not allowed to own your code, than you can't control the economy based around it.
"They have no value..."
Except that given by the act of creation which open source wants to remove.....
Most people posting on /. in regard to lawsuits brought against MS for bundling IE or their media player were pretty happy someone was going after MS. Now that some idiot is suggesting the same thing against OSS, sanity prevails on /., and people realize how ridiculous such lawsuits are. Of course, if MS was sued tomorrow over bundling, people here would rejoice, because they're not rational enough to keep a consistent opinion, but instead react emotionally based on who is being sued.
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That's completely false. You should be ashamed of yourself. Wallace claims, correctly, that Gnu is selling their product for less than what it costs to produce it. That's called DUMPING, and it's against the law. He also claims, also correctly, that the FSF engages in price fixing by getting multiple vendors to agree to give their products away for free. The is anti-competitive, because it prevents other vendors who don't want to give their products away for free from entering the market.
Try just for one minute to set aside your zealotry and look at the merits of the argument. You'll find that they're very sound.
in National Socialism, all infrastructure which is common to the people is nationalized -- so power, water, roads, rail, airline, et etera. health care and schools and junk too I guess.
Then there are small private enterprises -- your bakers, cobblers, tailors and junk.
Citizens are entitled to all public services, but are required in turn to serve the public.
Non citizens get whatever's the leftovers because they don't belong anyway and need to go away.
National Socialism is actually rather nice. Except this pesky "Third Reich" experiment at it went horribly wrong. or did it?
http://vho.org/GB/c/DC/gcgvcole.html
David Cole, a Jew, says the gassings never happened and are fabricated by the Jewish Bolshevick Soviet Union.
True or not, holocaust or not, National Socailism is nice. So long as people stay on their own side of the street. Moochers and parasites must be dealt with, of course. But citizens are rather independent outside of their required service (military).