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Editor's Note: Open Source Is Not Going To Sue You
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| The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation ran a couple of days ago. It painted a
| picture of Open Source software as being a minefield of grumpy litigious
| geeks who want to cash in with fat lawsuits, and no clear guidance for how to
| stay out of trouble. Oddly, this all seemed to come from a most unlikely
| source, the director of the Gnome Foundation, Stormy Peters. Even unlikelier,
| it was from her talk at LinuxWorld, which hardly seems a good venue for
| spreading misinformation of any kind, let alone old moldy misinformation.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-08-08-030-35-OP-LL
It's not just software where such FUD is used.
Related:
How AT&T chewed up, and spat out Net Neutrality
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| In an interview with Business Week in October 2005, Whitacre said
| he thought taking over BellSouth would be rejected by the FCC.
| He also made another memorable comment that began the process
| which culminated in the FCC's approval in December.
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http://www.theregister.com/2007/01/10/whitacre_wins_big/
Defendant: RIAA abusing courts to shore up "failing business model"
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| After the lawsuit was filed, Njuguna said she boxed up the PC reportedly used
| for infringement and purchased a new one. She then filed a series of
| counterclaims to the RIAA's lawsuit in an attempt to have the lawsuit
| dismissed and her name cleared. One of those accuses the record labels of
| failing to negotiate in good faith.
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| Njugana also accuses the RIAA of engaging in deceptive and unfair trade
| practices, arguing that the record labels have demonstrated repeated behavior
| that has an "adverse effect on the public interest." She also cites former
| RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen's lawsuit (which seeks class-action status) as
| evidence that, unless the courts step in at some point, the RIAA will
| continue its campaign.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070913-defendant-riaa-abusing-courts-to-shore-up-failing-business-model.html
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