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Wallace's Second Anti-GPL Suit Loses
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.'"
I love watching you dolts totally miss the point.
One woman sewing will not compete on the scale of Dockers.
But if Dockers was paying $4.75/hr in America and China could pay its workers $0.80/hr, then dump them in the American market at a price below that cost, Dockers would have a complaint.
This has been done hundreds of times and is a cornerstone of world trade negotiations.
P.S. Giving your code away for free is stealing from your own retirement.
GPL is not BSD.
When was the last time you read the GPL in every file you downloaded?
All it takes is a little linguistic shift.