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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. How do you feel about by Aexia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    your sister Hilary siding with the RIAA? Are you disappointed she's chosen to use her powers for evil and not good?

  2. Re:Did Microsoft Win ? by Rob+Kaper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Karma:Excellent (CmdrTaco got tired of seeing Slashdot math: 50+1-1=49)

    Unless you start posting crap on a regular basis, there is no difference between a karma rating of 49 or 50. Or even 48, 47, 46.. Therefore it doesn't matter Slashdot recalculates karma immediately instead of making a queue so you can keep the beloved 50.

    So, if anything, the changes are an improvement because your exact karma rating doesn't really matter most of the time. But some people see problems where there just aren't any.

  3. What? by rosewood · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Fuck - I was out of town all week and I totally missed this. Really, there needs to be a clean way to pick any day and read the news posted for that day. Every site should have such a feature. It would be very nice to read the top headlines of "normal news", top headlines on the shack, top headlines on slashdot etc.

    So no - not everyone knew about this yet - I did not :

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