[Eug-lug] open source legal victory

Brian Gallagher baggab at pacinfo.com
Tue Nov 14 07:16:02 PST 2006


There is a lot of talk about of using open source software in voting 
machines, maybe we will get some traction there.

Michael Miller wrote:
> I wonder if anyone will try to convince congress that the FSF is a
> monopoly.  I would put money on Microsoft paying Jack Abramoff to
> convince some in congress of that.
>
> On 11/11/06, Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6134573.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news 
>>
>>
>> Open source earns legal victory
>> "... Plaintiff Daniel Wallace had sued the open source giants, 
>> contending
>> that they had conspired with the Free Software Foundation ...
>> price-fixing..."
>> "A 'quick look'," wrote the judges, "is all that's needed to reject
>> Wallace's claim."
>>  by Anne Broache
>>
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