About the calculus for the project
About the calculus for the project
Posted Feb 10, 2012 17:38 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: About the calculus for the project by landley
Parent article: A tempest in a toybox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
Honestly, if you work in the industry you get to know this stuff...
Sure. These tales are very well-known. But that happened half-century ago. Companies worked diligently to rectify "the problem" all that time. Today the outcome of such lawsuit is quite different to predict.
Oratroll is suing over patents
Nope. Copyrights are very much in dispute, too. And outcome is not yet certain. And I'm sure if Oracle will be repelled this time then it'll cooperate with Disneys and SONYs of the world to change the law to make sure next time they'll win.
In fact the whole SFC "problem" have one trivial and quite logical solution: change the law, reduce copyright power and make what SFC is doing illegal. Sadly Disneys and SONYs of the world reject this solution out of hand because it'll reduce their copyright power, too. Well, as long as that's the case don't expect me to feel any sympathy to their plight. They brought it on themselves.