Re: Market pressures for more reliable software

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <9glcks$dvk$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>Sending embedded code to some other location and energetically disassembling
>the computer on which it is stored doesn't give the foreign government at
>your new storage site/test facility on their soil the right to demand the
>source under terms of the GPL. Its still your bomb - you just decided to put
..
>Besides, its all moot under the terms and conditions of Catch 22 which
>clearly states: "The Army can do anything you can't stop it from doing."
>They're the guys holding all the guns and bombs. If they don't feel like

At work we pictured it going like this:

Serbia: It has come to our attention that your organization (hereafter referred
to as NATO) has redistributed thousands of copies of software to our cities
which is covered under the GNU Public License (hereafter referred to as the GPL)
inside of the casings of shells, missiles, and bombs. Under the redistribution
terms of the GPL, you are required to provide us with the sources to all the
GPL'ed code that you have distributed, and to all code linked with it, yet this
source code has been purposely and maliciously denied us. We are hereby suing
NATO for $1.5 Billion US in compensatory and punitive damages, and for full
compliance with the terms of the GPL.

NATO: We are currently in the process of formulating a full and complete
response to your legal brief. We respectfully request that Serbia provide the
GPS coordinates of its legal council, so that we may ensure that our response is
delivered properly...

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