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Which makes this a particularly bad piece from the register, since their opening lines are

"The Software Freedom Conservancy has secured $90,000 in damages for willful infringement of GPLv2, plus nearly $50,000 in costs from Westinghouse Digital Electronics over its illegal distribution of the Unix utility BusyBox. The company has also been ordered to stop shipping product loaded with BusyBox."

When it's just about 100% sure that those awards will never be realised.



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