Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits

Bruce Perens writes "I'm the creator of the Busybox program. I have released a statement on the past and current Busybox lawsuits, which do not represent my interest."

Hey

[Anonymous Coward]

No pitching your own crappy stuff here, ok?

Re:Hey

[chill]

No pitching your own crappy stuff here, ok?

On Slashdot?! You must be new here.

Slashdot: Stuff that matters...

[Anonymous Coward]

...to Bruce Perens.

Re:Proposition

[Anonymous Coward]

This should be settled in a civilized manner. I suggest the lowest slashdot id wins.

GPL == ClusterFuck

[Anonymous Coward]

No wonder the major forces in unix development these days, Google and Apple, are entirely BSD focused.

Re:What's your point Bruce?

[gr8_phk]

I want to be properly represented as a person with a copyright interest in the program, and I want the folks who assert lawsuit on others to comply in regard to my rights as they would have others comply with theirs. I doubt that legal action will be necessary to effect this change.

Putting up a public blog complaining that you're not represented doesn't seem like a very nice way to go about it. How you handle such matters will reflect on you and your business. OTOH if business is slow, any PR will do in a pinch I guess.

Re:Raises an interesting issue

[Anonymous Coward]

"@phantomcircuit -- the remedy for a #GPL violation is specific performance, i.e. making the source code available. There is no monetary loss or other damage to the original developers.".size
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So no, he didn't "tweet". A "tweet" is no more than 160 characters, posted on (by definition) Twitter, and is retarded. That post meets none of the requirements that would define it as a tweet. Your post, however, meets two of those three requirements.

Just to be clear

[Anonymous Coward]

Some people here may find this story obscure, or hard to understand. Let me help out.

Busybox is a collection of tools for downloading and indexing pornographic data. Bruce Perens is the cousin of Jimbo Wales and got his start back when Wikipedia was supposed to be a porn repository.

Re:OT: Can someone verify BP's favicon?

[wjsteele]

I see it as the head of a little lizzard. Must be something with your browser. Try upgrading it to IE8. (Which is what I am using!) :-)

Bill

Why not BSD or Mozilla it?

[xquark]

Bruce, why not change the license to something more agreeable with the general public. At least that way, you'd help keep the honest guys honest.... and also make using and modifying busybox related stuff all that more easier and inviting.

Re:Raises an interesting issue

[abulafia]

and violating the GNU

Don't do that. They've got pointy horns and know how to use them.