Groklaw: Darl Goes to Harvard – My First Quick Impressions

“I watched the webcast and while I lost the stream once or
twice, I heard the bulk of it. No doubt others will fill in the
blanks, and I took some pictures off the screen which will at least
give you a flavor when I get them up. Soon.

“The big news is that they say they will start to sue copyright
end users by February 18. The other news is that he asked the
audience if they had gotten infected by MyDoom, and he pointed to
one guy who beautifully answered, ‘No, I use Linux, so I wasn’t
affected,’ and the room laughed. Darl wasn’t happy about that and
it was clear he didn’t like the questions about the ABI files. He
said that Linus claimed only two, and there were the rest they can
sue over, though they still plan to contest Linus’ claims in
court.

“Someone mentioned an article that had lessened his credibility
on the other ABI files, that it had said it looked like they had
distributed them under the GPL. And it was like he turned dark and
stormy and paced and tried not to show his anger. But it
showed…”

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