Wallace's Second Anti-GPL Suit Loses

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Wallace's Second Anti-GPL Suit Loses

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday May 21, 2006 @04:57AM from the e-for-effort dept.

Enterprise OpenSource Magazine is reporting that Daniel Wallace's second Anti-GPL lawsuit has gone down in flames. From the (short) article: "The judge wrote that 'Antitrust laws are for 'the protection of competition, not competitors.' In this case, the GPL benefits consumers by allowing for the distribution of software at no cost, other than the cost of the media on which the software is distributed. 'When the plaintiff is a poor champion of consumers, a court must be especially careful not to grant relief that may undercut the proper function of antitrust.' Because he has not identified an anticompetitive effect, Wallace has failed to allege a cognizable antitrust injury.'"

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Wallace was wearing the wrong trousers... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-05-21 05:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Judges stand up for consumer shocker.

Read all about it!
1. Re:Wallace was wearing the wrong trousers... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-05-21 05:55 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  So how do we get this Judge on the Supreme Court?
2. Re:Wallace was wearing the wrong trousers... by colmore · 2006-05-21 14:43 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Still upset about Marbury vs. Madison, eh?
  
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Poor Guy by Ohreally_factor · 2006-05-21 05:08 · Score: 4, Funny

He has had no luck with anything since he broke up with Grommit.

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Sir, are you an idiot? by rajafarian · 2006-05-21 05:28 · Score: 5, Funny

I read your post half a dozen times or so and but I can't tell. Do you charge your loved one for making her happy? (I know, I know, I'm making a few assumptions here.)
Asshat sues RedHat, Judge laughs by Half_Ninja_Half_Pira · 2006-05-21 05:39 · Score: 3, Funny

News at 11.
Re:Who is Wallace and why did he sue? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-05-21 05:57 · Score: 5, Funny

Wallace is a Physicist who looked at the BSD licence. Basically here is what I can piece together went on in his twisted brain.

"Oooh, look, I can take this, change some strings in it so it says 'WallaceOS' and sell it as a green screen command line OS for shitloads of money per copy, distributing it under a licence so my suckers...er customers can't redistrubite it, and so I don't have to give out the source code."

"WTF... nobody's buying my really cool WallaceOS? WTF there's this thing called Linux that is soooo much better under a licence called the GPL that keeps people from doing what I'm trying to do with BSD? That's anticompetative!!! "

"I must sue the Free Software Foundation and remove this evil thing called Linux and the GPL. It doesn't seem to matter that the FSF has nothing to do with the Linux kernel... only the GNU part of the OS, but who cares.... with the GPL gone, people will buy my l33t WallaceOS for whatever money I want to charge and I'll beeeee riiiiich!!!! I just hope they never hear about FreeBSD!"
Re:Who is Wallace and why did he sue? by khallow · 2006-05-21 06:47 · Score: 2, Funny

That's a painful way to find out you're wrong.
GPL coders don't code for free by Anonymous Coward · 2006-05-21 09:44 · Score: 1, Funny

GPL coders code for the Karma. Which is quite often better than money.