With such a proven track record of DCMA violations, this guy had better never even board a plane that stops somewhere inside the US.
Even if he stays in the international area, he's done for.

If I'm using GPL code but don't want anyone to know, simply use the DMCA to forbid reverse engineering of anything to prevent such detection. But no, that wouldn't really ever happen, because that would be unethical.

HB

It all comes down to people who are too lazy to code from themselves. People take what they want and pretend they made it. I'm certain some is unethical people and some are unethical corporations that look the other way. Any way you slice it, Thats really what happens. 
You do have to admit, some of the embedded linux stuff is pretty neat. There in lies the allure.

For the record, Thiefs should still get their hands chopped off though, if only digitally.

Well its a safe bet that *most* microsoft software won't have any open source components tucked away - its simply far too crap for any open source goodness to be included.