[linux-elitists] So, Microsoft spent that good will already.

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Greg Folkert (greg at gregfolkert.net):

> Since the SFLC says that Microsoft had already violated (and was in
> violation of) the GPLv2 and came into compliance when it released the 20
> KLOC...

Honestly, would it have hurt you to provide either a quotation or a URL?
Here, let me help:  http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33641

That incredibly brief and detail-free claim from SFLC doesn't anywhere
contradict what I said.  Perhaps you didn't notice?  

Brad Kuhn -- who is not a lawyer, and I see no claim that SFLC attorneys
spoke to this issue at all, let alone participated in a code review  -- 
impliedly claims that Microsoft Corporation's patches were a derivative
work of unnamed coders' prior kernel work.  To refresh your memory, I 
said this was possible, and asked you to detail the code review you did 
that supported your _own_ half-assed assertion.  You of course ignored
the question.

Anyway, I would be interested to know about Brad Kuhn's code review.  ;->  
And then maybe he can go on to tell us which individual's (or
individuals') copyrights were violated through exercise of their
reserved rights without permission (what you confusedly mischaracterise
as "violating the GPL"), and about any lawsuit intentions they might
have over that tort and what they would expect to gain.  ("Coming into
compliance" would not erase the preceding alleged tort.)

_Real_ copyright conflicts involve questions of derivative work theory, 
legal standing, rights & remedies, etc.  I realise those are probably
alien concepts in your world, but, as Thomas Sowell says, "Reality is
not optional."

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