Re: Artifex v. Diebold: "The GPL is non-commercial!"

[Chris Ahlstrom]

After takin' a swig o' grog, Hyman Rosen belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
>> http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/01-07482.PDF
>> ... From the user's vantage point, SmartDownload could be analogized 
>> to a free neighborhood newspaper, readily obtained from a sidewalk 
>> box or supermarket counter without any exchange with a seller or 
>> vender.
>
> I'm glad you made the free paper analogy. What do you imagine the
> reaction of the courts would be if someone showed up at the box
> and took all the papers and started reselling them for pulp?

The advertisers in that paper would sure be irked.

Just goes to show you that Terekhov can't even get the basics correct:

>> without any exchange with a seller or vender [sic].

How does he think the paper got produced in the first place?

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