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Re: Brownian Commotion (4.00 / 8) (#3)
by matesrates on Sat Mar 26th, 2005 at 16:48:39 EST
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Brown seems to assume there has been no IP litigation around FOSS. Has he done his research?

There were a few cases around DeCSS, with trade secrets at issue. As far as I know, they never did stop publication of the source code, though there is still no unencumbered Linux DVD player. Hardly the Apocalypse Brown is looking for, in fact it shows FOSS's resilience.

Then there was the Lindows trademark dispute that turned into a nightmare for Microsoft.

And the Java embrace-and-extend case that MS eventually settled with Sun for big bucks.

It's not looking good so far, Ken.

Can anyone think of any other examples?

crash-happy virus magnet

Re: Brownian Commotion by mikey, 03/26/2005 19:36:00 EST (4.00 / 6)

Re: Brownian Commotion by matesrates, 03/26/2005 20:19:01 EST (4.00 / 7)
Re: Brownian Commotion by br3n, 03/26/2005 19:44:32 EST (3.50 / 6)

Re: Brownian Commotion by mikey, 03/26/2005 20:02:29 EST (4.00 / 7)

Re: Brownian Commotion by br3n, 03/26/2005 20:15:20 EST (3.57 / 7)

Brownian Commotion | 26 comments (23 topical, 3 editorial, 6 hidden)

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