VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation

Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by aros on Thursday March 05, 2015 @02:23PM (#9153187)

What a bizarre world we live in where willful violations of a legally binding license (a license which attempts to keep knowledge in the open) is considered nothing more than a "calculated risk."

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Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by mgkimsal on Thursday March 05, 2015 @03:00PM (#9153423)

Every time you speed on the freeway, you're willfully violating the law, and taking a calculated risk that you won't get caught. No?

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Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by aros on Friday March 06, 2015 @08:27AM (#9156858)

I don't speed.

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Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by Igglyboo on Thursday March 05, 2015 @10:02PM (#9155353)

I'm sure you've never jaywalked or littered or sped in a car and thought to yourself "there's no way i'll get in trouble for this so i'll do it anyway". Except in VMware's case they are much large than a single person so their list of "low risk" crimes is larger.

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Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by aros on Friday March 06, 2015 @08:28AM (#9156860)

I don't jaywalk, litter, or speed.

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