Lawsuit Backlash

Lawsuit Backlash

Your editor cannot help but wonder, though, whether the increasingly litigious actions by the Software Freedom Law Center might not eventually lead to a serious backlash within the community.

To those looking at comparisons with, say, lawsuits by the RIAA/MPAA, it's worth noting that GPL lawsuits target not the users of the licensed software, but those who redistribute it. In other words, they're not suing the actual customers for the software, only those who are out to rip off the customers. I think this should be enough to forestall any kind of bad feeling against the lawsuits--they're only being filed against those who are trying to make a profit out of this software without fulfilling their reciprocal obligations, and for whom nobody should be feeling any sympathy.