InfoWorld: Open Source Risky? Nah. Just If You Hire an Attorney Who Doesn't Grok It

"I came across this opinion piece by Paul Barton, an attorney at Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP today. I wish he would have attended the Open Source Business Conference before writing his piece. (OSBC includes, among other things, two full days of legal education on open source.) He could have saved himself the embarrassment of misinformation. (I won't call it malpractice. :-)

"(Btw, I am an attorney. I don't play one on TV.) (Unfortunately...)"

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