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Following the Supreme Court's 7-2 decision Monday in the Castle Rock v. Gonzales case, Richard Smith, partner with the international law firm McDermott Will & Emery, and John Eastman, constitutional professor of Law at Chapman University, have entered into a week-long online debate on the Court's ruling. In the first ever domestic violence case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Court held that the Castle Rock Police… Read More

Basically, SCO claims that the open-source Linux operating system infringes on the intellectual property developed for Unix. If the claims were to hold up in court, the business model of providing “open” software, closely associated with Linux, could be broken. The letter, sent on May 12 to Fortune 1,000 companies and 500 other global concerns, fired a shot across the bow of the Linux user community, which reacted with angry… Read More