The interesting thing about this case is that the infringer was sued by a company that used their software, not by the copyright holder. I'm not sure I'm happy

The interesting thing about this case is that the infringer was sued by a company that used their software, not by the copyright holder. I'm not sure I'm happy about that, given the way a few rabid free software fanatics have acted in the past. In particular, I remember the QuakeWorld GPL fiasco, where zealots in the community took it upon themselves to harass the leader of an open source project, rather than giving a chance for a much more level-headed John Carmack to sort things out. See: http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=1&time=20000224183445 http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=1&time=200...