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IBM, Red Hat, and Novell Named in Suit that Goes Down in Flames Daniel Wallace's second anti-GPL suit accusing IBM, Red Hat and Novell of predatory price-fixing and restraint of trade has gone down in flames like his first against the Free Software Foundation, which wrote the license. The second decision came from a different judge in the Southern District of Indiana and, like the first judge and the FSF complaint, he found that Wallace didn't properly state a claim. He said he accepted the allegations as true but that Wallace didn't allege anticompetitive effects in an identifiable market by...

WISCONSIN COMPANY PAYS SOFTWARE WATCHDOG $150,000 BSA Announces Software Grace Period in MilwaukeeWashington, D.C., April 29, 2002 – The Business Software Alliance (BSA), a watchdog group representing the nation’s leading software manufacturers, today announced that Commercial Communication, Inc., a printing company located in Hartland, WI, paid BSA $150,000 after a self-audit revealed more copies of Adobe, Autodesk, Macromedia, Microsoft and Symantec software programs on its computers than it had licenses to support. In addition to the payment, the company agreed to delete any unlicensed copies, purchase replacement software and strengthen its software management practices. This settlement announcement comes at...