Marc Perkel wrote:
Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
Linus,
For what it's worth, maybe you should run some of these issues past
the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) or Robin Gross at
IPJustice.org who might be able to review these issues and help make
sure you're doing it right.
Great advice, however, the EFF are not experts in IP law. I would
suggest a good firm in Palo Alto, like Rosati, Goodrich and Sonsini,
they are experts
in corporate IP law and Corporate law in general. They would know
all the loopholes people and companies are likely to use. Stay away
from these
freebie Law Groups who are more likely to kiss your butt and tell you
waht you want to hear rather than what you NEED to hear.
OSDL should pick up the tab. It will cost around 30K for a good
analysis from them.
Jeff
Actually EFF does have some good IP lawyers on staff and Robin Gross -
a former EFF employee ([email protected]) is also very up on this.
And the prices is right too if you don't want to spend the big bucks.
I would rather get legal advice from lawyer who care about GPL than
lawyers who just want to run up a big fee and screw you in the end.
No. I think tey would salivate to be able to work on Linux stuff with
Linus. Wilson Sonsini, who was on the Novell Board at the time, directed
the lawsuit against me at TRG -- he nailed me no matter what squirming I
did. I have had other dealings with them. They would do a great job
for Linus.
It might be worth looking into doing it right before some other SCO
type decides they can get rich by busting Linux.
Not likely. Our building is right next to them and over the past few
months, there's fewer and fewer cars in the parking lot and more lights
turned off in offices in the evening. I doubt they are going to do
anything to Linux. IBM is going to get nailed on some stuff, but I think
Linux is unaffected, at least those parts RedHat, Suse, and the rest of
us need to keep going.
Jeff
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