Hello Don,
DB> Sorry, having grown up with an intellectual property lawyer as a father:
DB> “The reciever of stolen goods is at much at fault as the original thief”
DB> and typically the penalties are as strong if the reciever is made aware of
DB> this stuff.
Can you see “made aware” stuff in there? I can all the time say that I
was not aware of that. And you can send me emails, post to my forum
and I can say that on my mailing server i drop all emails from
unrecognized email addresses, that I don’t read the forum and you
will have to prove, that I read these, that I was aware of this. And
I can assure you, you won’t prove that.
DB> It is not my word against Bo Branten’s. Jamey has the record of Bo asking
DB> for the material, when Bo first published his I for one did a source
DB> comparison of the two, and except for removing Jamey’s ID and adding his own
DB> plus the GNU license they were identical.
It is your word against Branten’s. You’re vilifying Branten and I can
say, that Jamey Kirbey made it up, that he falsified the “record”
(it’s emails? heh, no proof) and then what? For me you, Branten and
Kirbey have the same moral credit - I don’t know any of you, so I
can’t judge who stole something from another one. Moreover, I don’t
care. What have we lawsuits for??
DB> Note, several well regarded
DB> members of the open source movement have been convinced of these facts and
DB> recognize that the code is stolen.
Nice. Why are you trying to convince anyone around you apart from the
one, who can do the legal steps? If you don’t have enough money to sue
him, borrow some, do anything you want, but don’t bother with it here.
More importantly, why are you trying to convince me? I don’t care,
I don’t want to read about this on mailing list about NT driver
development, I signed to this list to read about NT driver development
(the name says it clearly, right?) not about legal cases covering
licenses, put it somewhere else.
This is total OT, can please the list manager do something about it?
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Best regards,
Ivona Prenosilova