Companies that use open-source source software to make money may have to reexamine their practices because of the real possibility of litigation and changes in the new version of the most popular open-source license, Edmund J. Walsh of the Boston IP law firm Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C., writes in the April issue of IP Law & Business.
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akf
13 weeks 1 hour 4 min 26 sec ago
FUD
This is just a new wave of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt).
Read the following:
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2008/jun/05/enforcement-lawsuits/
It refers to a different, but very similar article.
Balzac
12 weeks 3 days 16 hours 24 min ago
They will have no luck getting any money from me.
Edmund J. Walsh of the Boston IP law firm Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C. is barking up the wrong tree.
Their idea is that somebody can have a software idea, patent it and then sue anyone else who has that same idea.
My response to those who want to tax me for writing code, stop me from distributing code, invade my privacy, and deny me my freedom is this:
I hope you have a good appetite, because I'm going to serve you a ration of ____.