Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th Aug 2006 09:09 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"The cipherfunk web site, which made extra packages available to Ubuntu and MEPIS users, was shut down in response to complaints from Ubuntu team members Matthew Garrett and Philipp Kern. It is my understanding they alleged that cipherfunk was not making modified GPLed source code available in a timely fashion. You can read about it the website." "Well, the GNU GPL states as part of Section 3 of the licence that I must provide source code on request for no more than the cost of physically performing the distribution. Given that the host this box is on actually costs me 110.95AUD every 30 days to run, 9.90AUD, as nice as that is - still will cost me over 100AUD to distribute the code at all." Update: As Matthew Garret pointed out in the comments, he wrote his side of the story on his blog.
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2006-02-20
"Imagine a police officer politely asking you to drive out of the no-parking zone, not even a disability would give you the moral right to complain about that. "
I would want to qualify this as:
Imagine there are two parking slots next to each other and one of them has been reserved in my name but the next one is 'free'. Someone parks in such a way that his/her car juts out into my parking slot by a feet and hence I am unable to park there. Do I not, at least, have the right to ask the person to move his/her car out of my parking slot politely???
I feel some people here are calling the above scenario disgusting!