pre-law, good, so you can donate all your time to defending the mass open source lawsuits on the horizon.
Here's the funny thing. Thus far, there has been no cases in the American legal system. There is no precedent or case law applicable here--so you can't say that there are going to be successful lawsuits.
Companies can try, but until there is some precedent, neither you nor I are in any position to state what's going to happen. Unless of course you're an understudy of Miss Cleo...
From what I can see, the biggest thing is whether OSS licenses are going to be viewed as being under contract law or copyright law, and whether other acts such as Sarbanes-Oxley are going to have an impact.
Or if he wants the big bucks he can fall in love with a pump and dump stock scam the next time a sco comes up...