“The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has issued an
opinion in which Judge Easterbrook declares, ‘[t]he GPL and
open-source have nothing to fear from the antitrust laws.’ The case
is called Wallace v. IBM., No. 06-2454…“Plaintiff Wallace filed an antitrust suit against IBM, Red Hat
and Novell, arguing that those companies had conspired to eliminate
competition in the operating system market by making Linux
available at an ‘unbeatable’ price (free) under the General Public
License (‘GPL’)…”
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