Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Posted Feb 3, 2012 19:24 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement by Wol
Parent article: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

> It only takes ONE supplier to make a mistake, and ALL of those products could be vetoed and off the market.

I don't think that is a legitimate statement of risk although clearly some people believe it.

> I'm quite happy to describe them as a victim.

I think that to be a victim requires a the abuse of a power imbalance of the stronger against the weaker which is obviously the opposite as the described situation. That's just my opinion though and reasonable people could disagree.