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Novell, buyer's remorse, and the patent threatNovell, buyer's remorse, and the patent threatPosted Nov 30, 2006 22:52 UTC (Thu) by aquasync (subscriber, #26654)In reply to: Novell, buyer's remorse, and the patent threat by wookey Parent article: Novell, buyer's remorse, and the patent threat
Wow. I hadn't heard about this project.
Thats really disappointing to see how badly the courts are working.
I'm just amazed by this quote:
``In it, he doesn't argue that Katzer didn't copy the JMRI software in violation of the copyright terms, probably because even HE can't stretch the truth that far. Instead, he argues that copyright doesn't protect free and open source (FOSS) software! You can read the entire argument in the motion filed with the court, in particular the section named "Plaintiff has waived his ability to sue under the Copyright Act" starting on page 13. Basically, it says that since JMRI makes the software available on the web, free of charge (although not free of restriction), when someone like Katzer takes it and uses it in violation of those restrictions, we can sue him in contract law only, if at all. The shocking part of Katzer's argument is that he says we have no rights under either copyright or contract to enforce.''
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