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Let me show you...

I want you to paste an excerpt from something you believe proves your case, like this:

"The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization."

Only yours should say the exact opposite of what mine does. Then, post a link to where you got it, like this:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic

That's how we debate, Buzzy. It's not just screaming "Section 3!" or "You didn't know it was the GPL!" over and over again hysterically like Barney Fife.

That's how we debate, Buzzy.

Now you've done it. This issue is not up for debate. What he says is what is true--didn't you know that?

He is infallible, almighty, truthful, and knows everything on which he comments. This includes every detail about the GPL, outsourcing jobs, copying software, and distribution policies of every American company in existance.

He knows that companies steal American software and only renames the code in order to claim all credit for writing it. He also knows that this process is ongoing and never stops. He knows that no American company has ever done this, thus these foreigners are merely stealing American IP (and no other) for use in their superclusters for designing atomic weapons so they can destroy American cities and the source for all their IP "wealth". This is a zero-sum game, and we're losing.

Can't you just understand that?

The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them.

ROFL, why do you continue to post this? It has nothing whatsoever to do with the subject matter being discussed, that being a company selling a modified version of Linux. They are distributing it, not using it privately, or do you not understand the difference between "private" and "distributed"?

And since they are selling it, there's nothing stopping some "company" in China buying a copy of this software, and getting the source code, then legally distributing it to ANYONE, INFINITELY, whithout ever having to pay for it again. They can even rename it something else if they want, do whatever they want with it, legally, including name it "Red Star" and load it on all their government computers. They can also sell it to Iran, North Korea, and Cuba, all legally and without a dime back to the U.S. But you obviously don't care, you apparently are willing to fight for their right to not only have free copies of it, but sell it all over the world just as if it was their own.