Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

[Ben Pfaff]

"amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:

> "Ben Pfaff" <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote in message
> 87myce5s72.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org">news:87myce5s72.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org...
>> "amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:
>>
>>> No one takes apart complex applications in order to change
>>> them, there is no value in having all those restrictions as
>>> posed by the GPL.
>>
>> What a bizarre, incorrect claim!  I spend a lot of time taking
>> apart complex applications in order to change them.  The Linux
>> kernel is one example of a complex application that I spend a lot
>> of time hacking.
>> -- 
> Perhaps you do, but the other 10,000 people nearest you do not.  

The half-a-dozen people who sit nearest to me at my office can,
and sometimes do.

My point is that your assertion that "no one" does these things
is egregiously ill-informed, and I think that I have made that
point.

> Are you one of the kernel developers?  It is hard to interpret
> the Google information around your name.

I doubt any of the kernel developers would recognize my name.
I've made a few small kernel contributions, but none recently.

I've been doing a lot of Linux kernel work in at the office.
We haven't yet tried to contribute it upstream.  Perhaps later
this year.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org