| Open Source: Chicken Little and Age-Appropriate Explanations |
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In the mid 1990s, when I first began running into open source
in my practice, I noticed that open source had a very strange effect on intellectual property lawyers. It was a Chicken Little situation, but instead of crying "the sky is falling" they were crying "the code is infringing."
Nearly ten years later, very few intellectual property lawsuits have actually been filed relating to open source. Roughly, the scorecard looks like this:
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