FSF, OSI and Busybox

FSF, OSI and Busybox

So here's a guy who didn't know anything about a 2 year old conflict that made news here on LWN more than once, claiming to have a 5 year relationship with Cisco that long predated him. (I also point out that the SFLC didn't _exist_ 5 years ago, and the first time the complaint says the FSF did anything "through counsel" was this February. So they're _both_ new at this.)

Yes but it's quite possible that FSF was doing things itself before the SFLC and that they weren't doing them through counsel. That still doesn't predate a 5 year saga with cisco/linksys.

They're suing Cisco over a Broadcom toolchain, which as far as I can tell Broadcom never gave Cisco the source to in the first place. The FSF is chosing to sue Cisco rather than Broadcom, not because Cisco is more in the wrong but because (as far as I can tell from the outside) they think Cisco is more easily intimidated due to having previously folded to the BusyBox guys (again, back before the SFLC existed).

Actually I'm pretty sure they are suing cisco since they are the bigger infringer and they've repeatedly been told about the problem and fixed that particular issue without fixing the general compliance problem.