Treatise On Software And Law Available Online

segoave writes "Lee Hollaar,Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah has made his book Legal Protection of Digital Information availible for free download. You may remember Professor Hollaar as the lead technical expert in the antitrust suits Caldera v. Microsoft and Bristol v. Microsoft (both of which settled in favor of the plaintiffs), he submitted a friend of the court brief in Microsoft's appeal in the DC Circuit. He has also he worked on patent reform legislation, database protection, and what eventually became the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Maybe this will help convince Lawrence Lessig to make his book available for download."

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Settling in favor of ...

[ObviousGuy]

Remember, a court case can only be decided in favor of one of the two parties. When a case is settled, neither of the parties can be considered losers.

If you look at it objectively, Microsoft took pity on the plaintiffs. Instead of dragging them through a full blown trial and draining them of every last penny, they gave them a nice lump of change. Benevolence by Microsoft or extortion by the plaintiffs. It's one of these two choices.