Quotes of the week

Posted Mar 29, 2007 23:47 UTC (Thu) by landley (guest, #6789)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by bronson
Parent article: Quotes of the week

You mean like the BusyBox "hall of shame"?

http://busybox.net/shame.html

Which was up for something like 5 years and DIDN'T WORK? Which is why we
asked the Software Freedom Law Center to actually sue people on our
behalf? (Which they do for free. Quite nice of them.)

Quotes of the week

Posted Apr 2, 2007 9:09 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yeah. It sort of makes sense that it doesn't work: if people don't care about the license of your software, it's unlikely that they'll care about you complaining about it either; and if they don't even realise what the license is, they probably hardly ever (or ever at all) look at the website anyway (I'd not be surprised if some of these embedded vendors grabbed a copy of busybox / uclibc years ago and never refreshed it; stability matters to these guys, after all).

It was a nice idea, but I can't see how it could work, even though I wish it did.