Bob Tennent wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:57:28 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> >
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> > Finally, the claim that the GPL has been directly upheld in court is
> > plain outright wrong. You might argue that it's been indirectly
> > upheld, but no court has directly ruled on the validity of the GPL.
> > Anywhere.
>
> Nor has there been any need to. Violators of the licence, no matter how
> rich, have backed off when they realized how little chance they had to
> have it ruled invalid. If your friends at Microsoft are so confident that
> it's invalid, they could try their luck in any jurisdiction in the world.
Erik is as usual talking out of his ass. And he is lying too
He has been pointed to more than once that the GPL *has* been upheld in
courts in europe, especially in germany
But as that does not suit his purpose, he ignores it
And continues to blatantly lying
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If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%?
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