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| Authored by: tinkerghost on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 01:31 PM EDT |
Given the number of times they claimed to have insufficient information, I would
say that Twin Peaks should have consulted a lawyer BEFORE trying to sell
something they didn't build in-house.
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 01:32 PM EDT |
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.[ Reply to This | # ]
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- Twin Peaks Software .. - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 03:07 PM EDT
- MasterCard Is Selling Your Data Just in Time for the Holidays - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 04:04 PM EDT
- This Machine Kills Secrets - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 05:40 PM EDT
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- you realize - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 08:15 AM EDT
- Google's not evil, but ... - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 05:16 AM EDT
- Apple loses UK tablet design appeal versus Samsung. - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 05:24 AM EDT
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 01:34 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 01:35 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: designerfx on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 01:52 PM EDT |
How far can willful blindness go? Isn't it expected that if
you sign the GPLv2 license and are a business that you should
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 02:21 PM EDT |
I've lost track of how many lawsuits Groklaw is reporting on
simultaneously.
Can you please remind us what the heck *this* case is about
at the beginning of the article? Just a link to a previous
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 02:40 PM EDT |
Twin Peaks must have been reading GL. They're claiming
Fair Use, De Minimis, and
>> 80. Red Hat’s copyright counterclaim is barred due to
> copyright invalidity to the extent that Red Hat claims rights
> to works that are functional,
83 is good too, We didn't steal it from Red Hat so they can't sue us,
and we're not telling who we stole it from...
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 02:41 PM EDT |
Here's a link to his firm's website.Nick
Mancuso
Here's his bio:
Nick S. Mancuso joined
the Lanier Law Firm's Palo Alto office
in 2010. He is a member of the firm's
high-stakes intellectual property
litigation group.
Nick is a
graduate of The University of Oregon School of Law, where he
concentrated on
intellectual property law. He was also the Managing Editor
of the Oregon Review
of International Law and won, along with a partner,
the school's Moot Court
Negotiation Competition. Nick went on to
successfully represent Oregon in a
regional competition held in Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada.
Prior to law
school, Nick was a litigation paralegal at two large international
law firms,
where he provided outstanding litigation support for many high
profile cases
that eventually went to trial. Further, he administered and
managed trial
support for multiple patent cases tried in United States
Federal District
Courts, including the Northern District of California and the
Eastern District
of Texas.
There's more, but this is the important part. I suspect
someone had a
brainstorm, like the people at The SCO Group had. They saw this
wonderful stuff, which they could make tons of money off, and decided to
try
and stake an ownership claim.
So they hire a high powered IP lawyer to
attempt a heist.
Now this is all a guess, but it is consistent with
the filing. Guess we'll have
to wait to find out.
In the meantime, if
your company uses anything from Twin Peaks, I'd plan
an exit strategy. I don't
think they will survive
this.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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| Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 03:14 PM EDT |
Twin Peaks is also pleading Independent Creation which to me means they want Red
Hat to prove what they copied and from where. This could also get into
functional and other defenses as we go along.
It certainly will be interesting.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 06:06 PM EDT |
They completely stuffed up. They shouldn't have tried it on.
They shouldn't have used GPL code. They should have disclosed
the code once they built upon GPL. Why are they bothering?
They've already lost comprehensively before starting. All
they are going to do is spend a lot of money with their
lawyers and lose. It's not as if they even have a snowball's
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 06:37 PM EDT |
catch22 :-)
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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
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1 study the source code and change it
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 11:57 PM EDT |
Not sure there is much to see here. Looks like the typical
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| Authored by: mtew on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 03:00 AM EDT |
On of the famous Groklaw side by sides would make this clearer.
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 08:25 AM EDT |
| ..... the stronger it becomes. So let Twin Peaks waste money on their lawyers.
The inevitable result will deter others. Eventually the attacks on the GPL will
cease. The battle is in any case moving to patents, and that battle will also
be over relatively soon, as we have seen in the last few days that the
patentability of software is attracting scrutiny, at last, in some of the right
places. The FOSS community, being more agile than certain monopolistic
dinosaurs, should probably be looking ahead and trying to predict where the next
form of attack will be coming, because come it surely will. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 01:20 PM EDT |
I was a freshman in high school the first time I read the entire GPL (v2). I
read it all the way through, preamble to Ty Coon's signature, in under an hour.
I wanted to understand what I would be getting myself into before I created any
software under that license. I've since done the same with the GPLv3 and the
AGPLv3.
If I, as a 13 year old kid, could do my legal homework, then why can't Twin
Peaks' entire lawyer army do theirs?[ Reply to This | # ]
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