The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation (InternetNews.com)
The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation (InternetNews.com)
Posted Aug 8, 2008 15:19 UTC (Fri) by quinticent (guest, #32015)Parent article: The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation (InternetNews.com)
I would like to point out that Stormy Patterson was severely misquoted by this reporter who attended her seminar. The article was pretty much a hack job.
Posted Aug 8, 2008 17:12 UTC (Fri)
by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
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The reason everyone settles out of court is because it's so black-and-white: the copyright holder points out the clear and simple language that the infringer is violating; the infringer consults his/her own attorneys, who say that the violation is clear and they'd lose in court, and a settlement then quickly follows. Sometimes the settlements involve money, but usually it's just enough to pay the plaintiff's expenses. Moglen's been doing it that way for a decade or more, first as the FSF's attorney, and now with the SFLC.
Posted Aug 9, 2008 17:49 UTC (Sat)
by quinticent (guest, #32015)
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Posted Aug 9, 2008 22:26 UTC (Sat)
by quinticent (guest, #32015)
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Peters, not Patterson. Yes, I've read her other stuff, and I couldn't believe for a second that she would sabotage her own missing by spreading such nonsense.
The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation (InternetNews.com)
The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation (InternetNews.com)
Haha, I don't know why I wrote Patterson - Peters right!!! I work with her on the GNOME
foundation and should have caught that. In any case
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-08-08... was a great rebuttal to
the former article.
The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation (InternetNews.com)
And right from Stormy's own mouth (or keyboard):
http://www.stormyscorner.com/2008/08/afraid-youll-ge.html