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Delicious Details of Open Source Court Victory
jammag writes "Open source advocate Bruce Perens tells the inside story of the recently concluded Jacobsen v. Katzer court case, in which an open source developer was awarded $100,000. Perens, an expert witness in the case, details the blow by blow, including how developers need to make sure they're using the correct open source license for legal protection. The actual court ruling is almost like some kind of Hollywood movie ending for Open Source, with the judge unequivocally siding with the underfunded open source developer."
Nice to see OSS win but I wish the physics had been written up just a little more correctly. The 2008 Nobel prize was awarded for the theory of how a matter-antimatter asymmetry can arise in meson decays which was thought up a long time before Babar even existed and was first tested in Kaon decay experiments (one of which I worked on as a grad student). It was awarded to theorists who were not working on Babar - and since they were Japanese were more probably closely associated to Babar's rival, Belle. So it was hardly his "colleague" - unless you can call any particle physicist a "colleague" in which case we have all been colleagues to a lot of Nobel prize winners. Secondly this DOES NOT explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe - the effect is far, far too small. We don't know how this arose. Possible candidates are "strong CP" or a similar CP violation term in the neutrino mixing sector of the Standard Model (or something else). So while this effect might be a clue as to what is going on it is definitely not he full picture.