Category Archives: linux

Microsoft v FSF?

August 29, 2007 – 8:53 pm

Hmmm.
Personally Geeklawyer loaths professor Eben Moglen of the FSF. We bumped heads with a while back and he came across as yet another loudmouthed pompous American academic lawyer with an unobjective assessment of his own brilliance.
Geeklawyer thinks the GPL3 to be brilliant in its objectives but poorly crafted, as is so often the case with […]

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Off to Wolverhampton

July 6, 2007 – 12:07 pm

Geeklawyer is off to Wolverhampton this weekend. He tires of the dreary suburban south. He longs for an exotic far away location with dusky maidens; the fragrance of palm trees lit by the glow of a radiant golden sunset; for the merry laughter of children playing freely; echoing halls of lavish art in marbled […]

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Torvalds ‘pleased’ with the GPL 3 draft

March 29, 2007 – 4:52 pm

News.com has done an interview with Linus Torvalds in which he is said to be pleased with the new GPL version 3 draft. Keeping Linus happy is a good thing since he controls the largest and most important Free/Open Source software project around: the Linux kernel.
Having read the interview it looks more like he is […]

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Court of Appeal to Sony: PS2 is just a games machine & BTW your lawyers suck ass

June 20, 2006 – 12:05 pm

In what must be one of the most stinging rebukes to a ‘proper’ claimant, the Court of Appeal went bezerk and ripped into Sony.
Jesus, there was blood everywhere. It was liked a scene from Kill Bill with Lord Justice Chadwick swinging his samurai sword with gay abandon: the ancient walls of the court sprayed with […]

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Microsoft cracking down on piracy

February 20, 2006 – 10:27 pm

Geeklawyer notes that Microsoft is ‘cracking down‘ on software piracy again. Not for their sakes of course. Well only incidentally anyway; no, their concern is for the economy. Stupid. ‘Cos a mere 10% reduction in piracy would create 34000 jobs in the UK and add £3 billion to the economy in tax revenues.

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If Carlsberg wrote software licences: GPL; probably the best software licence in the World

January 18, 2006 – 7:48 pm

Geeklawyer confesses to not having fully read the interim GPL3 draft yet.
That won’t dissuade him from giving an opinion of course since informed truth is as hemlock to commentary.

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revenge

October 27, 2005 – 9:34 pm

Via IPKAT.
Readers of a Linux, rather than legal, disposition and with long memories may recall the absurd antics of Les Editions Albert Rene. They are the owners of the mildly amusing Asterix the Gaul cartoon, sorry graphic novel, series which features a fat sidekick Obelix. LEAR thus sought and own the Obelix trademark and have […]

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