Delicious Details of Open Source Court Victory 202
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from the tooting-his-horn dept.
jammag writes "Open source advocate Bruce Perens tells the inside story of the recently concluded Jacobsen v. Katzer court case, in which an open source developer was awarded $100,000. Perens, an expert witness in the case, details the blow by blow, including how developers need to make sure they're using the correct open source license for legal protection. The actual court ruling is almost like some kind of Hollywood movie ending for Open Source, with the judge unequivocally siding with the underfunded open source developer."
Re:"the correct one"? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Programmers writing licenses (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Bad news for Open Source (Score:4, Funny)
Aww, such a cute little troll. Yes you are. Yes you are! Does my little Trolly need attention?
Re:Yay! (Score:3, Funny)
Yeeeesssss...I'm seeing Matt Damon as the earnest geek who refuses to back down, James Gandolfini as the litigious scumbag, and Brent Spiner as Bruce Perens.
Re:Believe It or Not (Score:1, Funny)
He means it doesn't require users to bend over backwards to make the software do something, which is the usual standard by which open source is judged.
Re:A few corrections to the preface here at Slashd (Score:3, Funny)