Why are vendors waiting for the SFLC lawsuit?

Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 6:05 am , a maker of enterprise-class switching gear, which apparently ignored repeated requests to talk and drew legal papers. Past suits over violations of the GPL by a variety of vendors all had the same conclusion. The vendors noticed their failure after the filing and quickly settled. So the question needs to be asked. Why? Why wait for the lawsuit to be filed before taking appropriate action, or at least responding to the SFLC? Is it that any publicity is good publicity? After all the suits of the last year do vendors still think the SFLC is bluffing? It costs money to settle any lawsuit, and as the settlements pile up and the grievance becomes increasingly obvious one would think that toll would go up. That’s how the movie and the music people have played it. In each set of lawsuits they... [read full story]