Fw: Re: coordinated compliance efforts addresses the issues of this thread (was Re: Amusing article about busybox)

[Hin-Tak Leung]

bounced due to non-subscribed alias. Probably not worthy reading...

--- On Sat, 25/8/12, Hin-Tak Leung <...> wrote:

> --- On Fri, 24/8/12, Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
> wrote:
> 
> <snipped>
> > There is not something like a part of company.
> > Ther is a company that produces a product and then
> sells
> > it to make some money. If for example your product
> > is defective you don't ask wich unit has engineered or
> > produced
> > it or sold it or delivered it as the company is liable
> for
> > the warranty.
> 
> Sorry, I am really losing focus of what exactly is this
> lengthy and long-winded discussion is about...
> 
> FWIW, big tech companies, like HP, and Sony, which are (1)
> international, (2) have a long history and gone through many
> acqusition, mergers, and split-ups and lay-offs, and (3)
> occasionally out-source some of their work to 3rd-parties to
> do, can behave like island of unrelated entities, especially
> where policies about using/scavenging from "open" software
> is concerned. (speaking generically, from GPL/MIT/BSD). The
> policy can include anything between "absolutely no" (no
> "polution" from the freebie lunatics), to
> use-in-house-with-substantial-customization-but-no-contributing-out,
> to active-participation, etc.
> 
> There is no single policy maker, and if you do decide to
> sue, you do need to send your lawyer's letter to the correct
> party, or it will get ignored... for example, sending your
> lawyer after Sony Italy for something that was planned in
> Sony Japan, designed by Sony US, but made in Sony China,
> probably won't get you very far. Sony Italy has no
> obligation whatsoever to even try to respond to tell you
> which party you should contact to get your view heard. Or
> sending your lawyer's letter to the Sony TV division
> complaining about their non-compliance in their camera
> products...
> 
> Anyway, can somebody summarise in one sentence, no more than
> 10 words, what this lengthy thread is about?
> 
> <snipped>
>