[wplug] Open source withstands antitrust scrutiny

Brandon Kuczenski brandon at 301south.net
Fri Nov 10 20:29:20 EST 2006


On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, David Ostroske wrote:

> On 11/9/06, Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.internetcases.com/archives/2006/11/open_source_wit.html
>> 
>> The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has issued an
>> opinion in which Judge Easterbrook declares, "[t]he GPL and
>> open-source have nothing to fear from the antitrust laws." The case is
>> called Wallace v. IBM., No. 06-2454. [1] Internet Cases covered the
>> lower court's decision from last December here [2].
> [...]
>
> Geez, I didn't realize that this Daniel Wallace nutjob was still
> around. I first heard about him on Groklaw when he sued the FSF, and
> lost, big-time. It was a big thing because it was the first time that
> the GPL was upheld in court.

In fact, the defeats are so resounding, one wonders if Wallace himself 
wasn't put up to the task by nefarious "free"-software conspirators.

-Brandon



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