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Ask a Legal Expert How MS Ruling Affects Open Source

Posted by Roblimo on from the when-you-need-expert-opinions-turn-to-an-expert dept.

By now we all know about Judge Kollar-Kotelly's decision in the Microsoft antitrust case. The effect of this ruling on Linux and Open Source use and future development is not yet clear. For those of you who have been wondering about this, we have a special interview guest: Attorney Lawrence E. (Larry) Rosen, Linux Journal's popular Geek Law columnist, who is surely one of the best-qualified people in the world to answer questions on this topic. (Usual Slashdot interview rules apply.)

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  1. Finally! by 13Echo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, tech-based legal advice that doesn't begin with "IANAL".

  2. Question: by cybercuzco · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have you ever posted on slashdot, and if so, have you ever used the acronym IAAL instead of IANAL?

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  3. Re:How do consumers benefit? No, really! by micromoog · · Score: 3, Funny
    On the other hand they might read your dard drive, extract your outlook email list and send it to MS so that the list could be used for spam.

    Yeah! Or they might find out which company you buy your tinfoil from, and buy that company, and put nanomachines in all the tinfoil so that your tinfoil hat actually reads your brain!!