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BusyBox settles another lawsuit

BusyBox settles another lawsuit

Posted Mar 6, 2008 21:45 UTC (Thu) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953)
In reply to: BusyBox settles another lawsuit by martinfick
Parent article: BusyBox settles another lawsuit

The only problem is that like most lawsuits most of the money received goes to pay the lawyers
and all the court related costs. Even if settling out of court is cheaper than a trial it's
still very expensive.


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BusyBox settles another lawsuit

Posted Mar 6, 2008 22:07 UTC (Thu) by landley (subscriber, #6789) [Link]

The SFLC does this stuff pro bono for open source projects.  It's very 
nice. :)

BusyBox settles another lawsuit

Posted Mar 7, 2008 0:05 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

The SFLC has to pay its employees for their time. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the recovered damages go for this purpose.

They are a nonprofit, and I'm sure that their pay scale is low, so it isn't like they're getting rich on this.

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