LINUX UNDER ATTACK

The Linux community is quickly realizing that Linux faces a serious threat to its very existence. SCO Group owns various copyrights and patents for Unix, and it has filed lawsuits or sent threatening letters alleging that Linux programmers have incorporated...

TIME MATTERS 5.0

Time Matters and Amicus are the market leaders for law office case management. Time Matters just rolled out its first new version in two years, version 5.0, along with a new companion product for billing, Billing Matters. It appears that Time Matters is positioning...

MICROSOFT TO PAY AOL $750 MILLION

You might have seen the news that Microsoft will pay AOL $750 million to settle AOL’s antitrust lawsuit. AOL acquired Netscape in 1998 and sued Microsoft in early 2002 for playing dirty to obtain market dominance. The deal makes sense from an economic perspective for...

NEW COURT DECISION: FILE SHARING PROGRAMS ARE LEGAL

A federal court judge in Los Angeles handed down a decision about file sharing that actually makes sense for a change. Judge Wilson ruled that the parent companies of Morpheus and Grokster are not liable for copyright infringement that takes place using their...

CD CLASS ACTION CLAIMS

Here’s an odd web site that you might want to visit. A class action lawsuit against CD distributors was settled and a fund has been set up with 67 million dollars in it. Anyone filing a claim before March 3 might get a check up to twenty dollars. Or it might be less,...

BROBECK COMMITS SUICIDE

Lawyers are probably aware that mega-firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison announced yesterday that it’s closing its doors. Here’s an interesting analysis of the firm’s rise and fall.