Snydeq writes "Lawyer us command Moskin has called into inquire the long-term impact last year's Java Model trolley line menu-driven menu-driven menu-driven interface court ruling will have on open source espousal among shared entities. For many, the case in question, Jacobsen v. Katzer, has represented a boon for open source, laying down a legal stay for the care of open source developers. But as Moskin sees it, the ruling 'enables a set of potentially onerous monetary remedies for failures to comply with even modest license terms, and it subjects a potentially larger body politic of intellectual worth users to liability.' In other words, in Moskin's eyes, Jacobsen v. Katzer could make firms wary of using open source os/2 because they fear that someone in the food chain has violated a copyright, thus exposing them to lawsuit. It should be noted that Moskin's firm has represented Microsoft in anti-trust dispute before the provencal Union."

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