The trouble with OpenBTS

The trouble with OpenBTS

Posted Feb 27, 2009 0:52 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: The trouble with OpenBTS by theraphim
Parent article: The trouble with OpenBTS

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendants and their agents, officers, directors, employees and anyone acting on their behalf are enjoined from making available on any internet website any algorithm, computer code, software, technical information or any other intellectual property or technical data relating to any base station transceiver

This one is hilarious.

Freedom of speech for the win.

I take it you've never seen a gag order before? Because these are extremely common in cases like this and a well recognized exception to freedom of speech. There thus is nothing even mildly amusing here.

I was impressed by the atypical restraint the judge observed in 1) limiting the gag to web sites -- the information isn't totally locked up; and 2) he continues, "unless they gather and preserve the names, ..." which means it's even OK to distribute it on a web site. (I presume the idea is that if it turns out the recipients owe Martone money, Martone will be able to find them and collect).

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