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____/ nessuno on Monday 22 Feb 2010 21:28 : \____
> <Quote>
> Robert Jacobson, the developer behind the open source Java Model
> Railroad Interface (JMRI) project, finally prevailed in a long-running
> open source software license enforcement lawsuit against Matthew
> Katzer, the owner of a company that sells commercial model train
> software.
>
> Katzer initially threatened Jacobson and JMRI with a patent
> infringement lawsuit in 2005, and demanded hundreds of thousands of
> dollars in licensing fees. Upon investigating Katzer's claims,
> Jacobson was surprised to discover that Katzer had misappropriated
> significant amounts of JMRI code, using it without attribution in a
> commercial software package. Jacobson retaliated against Katzer's
> patent suit by filing a copyright infringement suit....
>
> The threat of having to pay monetary damages will give software
> companies a big incentive to refrain from abusing or misappropriating
> open source software code.
> </Quote>
>
> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/02/ruling-foss-devs-can-collect-damages-from-license-violators.ars
Microsoft has violated the GPL at least (and got caught twice last year). Wouldn't
it be funny if those freeloaders at Microsoft were forced to pay?
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