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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:06:42 -0500, Corey Shields <cshields@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Friday 17 September 2004 12:58 pm, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> > Anyone want to comment on this? |
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> > http://www.literatigroup.com/versusmambo/ |
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> > I'm open to suggestions about what action (if any) the web-apps herd should |
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> > take. |
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>... SCO has been threatening the same thing with |
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I vote no action. Scare tactics have been tried before. Didn't IETF |
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just shoot down a msft proposal that would give them IP leverage? I'd |
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consider this the bluff of an enterprising little person that should |
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be thrown in jail for perjury. |
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"7. Robert Castley, Mambo Project Manager, 8/17/04 shifts |
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responsibility for the matter to users of Mambo OS. He said, "Mambo |
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can not be party to any disputes between individuals or companies |
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concerning the use of Mambo."" |
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translation: someone pissed in my wheaties and i'm going to sue the |
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world to get a new box. It seems like they're threatening mambo users |
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without any proof/grounds. When the first lawsuit flies and gets shot |
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down, I'll laugh. Mambo is GPL. If these guys honestly had any claim |
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to any code/idea/whatever they should have done something about it at |
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the time instead of a year later. |
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