Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 16, 2003 11:38 AM
To a certain extent, the RIAA has already covered this ground. When you download an OGG off gnutella you have no way of knowing the legal status of that file, neither did Napster for that matter. The only person that really knows if the file is legit or not is the guy that ripped it...but in both cases Gnutella and GNU/Linux the folks upstream from you have disclaimed liability.
I'm not saying it's right...just pointing out that this same reasoning has failed in the past.
It hardly matters though. Debian already has ports to the Hurd and BSD kernels... Even in a worst case scenario the GNU OS will continue on largely unchanged. How many Linux users would notice the difference between GNU/BSD and GNU/Linux?
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Re:End-user liability?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 16, 2003 11:38 AMI'm not saying it's right...just pointing out that this same reasoning has failed in the past.
It hardly matters though. Debian already has ports to the Hurd and BSD kernels... Even in a worst case scenario the GNU OS will continue on largely unchanged. How many Linux users would notice the difference between GNU/BSD and GNU/Linux?
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