Z:gnu-www-ja-moglen-harvard-speech-2004--cc0a3a-Mr. McBride's claim is that he/en

Mr. McBride's claim is that he is going out of business because somebody has taken what belongs to him. That's a lawsuit. As it turns out, however, the people he believes have taken what don't belong to him aren't us. His theory is that various people promised AT&amp;T at various times that they would do or refrain from doing various things, that some of the people who promised AT&amp;T in the old days to do or refrain from doing various things broke those promises, and that out of the breaking of those promises, Linux, a computer program distributed under free terms, benefitted.