A major court victory for open source(itmanagement.earthweb.com)
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A major court victory for open source
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3775446_1
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3775446_1
Jacobsen sued him.
After he filed the suit, Jacobsen found that Katzer's commercial product copies some of Jacobsen's JMRI (which Katzer has admitted in court [...] )
Jacobsen lost but appealed, and: A large number of Open Source projects and their attorneys, working for free, filed a "friend of the court" brief - and won.
I see this case not as a victory against patents, but as a victory for basic decency.
see also (where I stole it from) http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/752td/a_major_c...