ping!
So.. how long before a certain troll comes in to defend Monsoon and bemoan what a “trap” the GPL is, all the while conveniently neglecting that Monsoon is essentially engaged in theft by using other people’s work and intellectual property in violation of the license it is distributed under?
“Monsoon Multimedia’s marketing and sales operations are headquartered in the Silicon Valley in the US, while its main engineering and development operations are based in New Delhi, India.
The founders of the company founded Dazzle in 1996 where they developed the world’s first affordable PC hardware and software product to compress video based on MPEG standards. In 2000, they founded Emuzed where they pioneered the world’s first TIVO type product for the PC based on Microsoft’s Media Center PC operating system. In addition, they established a large Engineering center in Bangalore, India to provide software solutions for cell phone OEMs such as Nokia, Samsung, Texas Instruments and others. Dazzle was sold to SCM Microsystems in 1999 and Emuzed was sold to Flextronics in 2005, both for large returns to investors and shareholders.”
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
This is an action by Erik Andersen, an individual, and Rob Landley, an individual, (“Plain- tiffs”) by and through their attorneys, the Software Freedom Law Center, Inc., to recover damages arising from infringement of their copyrights by Monsoon Multimedia, Inc., (“Defendant”) and to enjoin Defendant’s future infringement. Specifically, Defendant distributed and continues to dis- tribute Plaintiffs’ copyrighted BusyBox software without Plaintiffs’ permission and despite the fact that Plaintiffs notified Defendant of its unlawful activity. Since Defendant has infringed Plaintiffs’ copyrights, and since that infringement is ongoing, Plaintiffs seek damages and injunctive relief.
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FACTUAL BACKGROUND 6. Plaintiffs are authors and developers of the BusyBox computer program, and the owners of copyrights in that computer program. BusyBox is a single computer program that comprises a set of computing tools and optimizes them for computers with limited resources, such as cell phones, PDAs and other small, specialized electronic devices. BusyBox is extremely customizable, fast and flexible, and, upon information and belief, is used in countless products sold by more than 100 manufacturers all over the world, including IBM, Nokia, Hewlett-Packard, and Siemens.