SFLC will love the 7th Circuit

Chris DiBona cdibona at gmail.com
Sun Oct 14 03:13:17 UTC 2007


Ah, I get it now. this is me not feeding the trolls anymore....

Chris

On Oct 13, 2007 12:08 PM, Alexander Terekhov
<alexander.terekhov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/13/07, Chris DiBona <cdibona at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://scofacts.org/Wallace-41.pdf
>
> Yes, that action (erroneously dismissed on jurisdictional grounds)
> ended with federal Judge Tinder's legal conclusion that "allegations
> sufficiently set forth a violation of the rule of reason". And he even
> managed to infer an anticompetitive effect of the GPL:  reduction of
> IP output.
>
> Read the entire docket, Chris.
>
> Kudos to Wallace.
>
>
> regards,
> alexander.
>
> --
> "PJ points out that lawyers seem to have difficulty understanding the
> GPL. My main concern with GPLv3 is that - unlike v2 - non-lawyers can't
> understand it either."
>                                 -- Anonymous Groklaw Visitor
>



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