A dispute between a proprietary software company and the Java Model Railroad Interface (JMRI) open source project has ended with a settlement, the JRMI project announced on February 17. The dispute yielded a ruling in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Jacobsen v. Katzer) that warmly endorsed the open source approach to… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: February 2010
It’s Ten O’Clock. Does the FBI Know Where You (Or At Least Your Cell Phone) Are?
Posted in PrivacyUPDATE: Audio files of the oral argument in this appeal are available on the Web site of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, here and here. If the FBI wants to know where an individual is, and if the Department of Justice prevails in a case rescheduled for argument tomorrow in snowy… Continue Reading