Re: [Fsfe-uk] GPL licence untested, authors could lose their rights in UK

[Ian Lynch]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 07:27 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:

> Once again, "the East of England, Europe's hotbed for innovation
> in science, technology and research" which already "has the
> highest per capita expenditure on R&D in the UK" is ignored.

Isn't that just that Cambridge is in the East of England ;-)

> Does that suggest the target audience for these events aren't
> the firms who are developing Free Software, but the big city
> commercial suppliers who will just trade in popular packages
> and want to avoid doing any compensation work to repair errors
> in the software they deploy, if they can avoid it?

Its probably aimed at suppliers and distributors primarily because they
are the ones that are taking the "risk" - that is assuming that there is
any more significant risk than with proprietary stuff. If you want to
fill up a seminar, London is the place to do it. Seems to me that
filling the seminar is probably the over-riding factor but let's not let
that get in the way of some interesting conspiracy theories :-)

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