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<DIV><FONT size=2>Pedro, Oliva, por leiam o PDF e opinem sobre eventual
interesse de traduzir isso por juramentado e juntar na ADI.</FONT></DIV>
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<BR><BR><STRONG>Open source earns legal victory</STRONG><BR>November 10, 2006
2:26 PM PST<BR></DIV>
<DIV>The open source software operations of IBM, Red Hat and Novell need not
fear prosecution under antitrust laws, a federal appeals court has ruled. </DIV>
<P>Plaintiff Daniel Wallace had sued the open source giants, contending that
they had conspired with the Free Software Foundation and others to offer their
wares at an "unbeatable" price (read: free), thereby squeezing competing
alternatives from enterprising software writers like Wallace out of the market.
(Wallace, according to court documents, wanted to compete with Linux, "either by
offering a derivative work or by writing an operating system from scratch.")
</P>
<P>A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
disagreed, upholding an earlier decision by a lower court. </P>
<P>"People willingly pay for quality software even when they can get free (but
imperfect) substitutes," the judges wrote in a six-page opinion <A
href="http://www.internetcases.com/library/cases/2006-11-09_wallace_v_ibm.pdf"><FONT
color=#20328e>(click for PDF)</FONT></A>. </P>
<P>They named <A
title="OpenOffice celebrates turning 2.0 -- Thursday, Oct 20, 2005"
href="http://news.com.com/OpenOffice+celebrates+turning+2.0/2100-7344_3-5903580.html"><FONT
color=#0048c0>Open Office</FONT></A>, a suite of word processor, spreadsheet and
presentation software designed as an alternative to Microsoft Office, and Gimp,
an open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop, as examples of instances in which
proprietary software manufacturers have had no trouble hanging onto the "lion's
share" of the market. </P>
<P>The judges went on to knock down--and arguably mock--Wallace's arguments that
people who release their software under the GNU General Public License are
"conspirators" engaged in "price fixing." </P>
<P>"A 'quick look'," wrote the judges, "is all that's needed to reject Wallace's
claim." </P>
<DIV class=blogAuthor>Posted by <A
href="mailto:anne.broache@cnet.com?subject=FEEDBACK: Open source earns legal victory"><FONT
color=#0048c0>Anne Broache</FONT></A></DIV></BODY></HTML>