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Bruce Perens has a blog post on his site stating that the court has ordered Open Source Security, Inc. and Bradley Spengler to pay $259,900.50 to his attorneys. At issue was Bruce getting sued for pointing out that Grsecurity and their customers are involved in contributory infringement and breach of contract by deploying their product in conjunction with the Linux kernel under the no-redistribution policy employed by Grsecurity.
The court has ordered Open Source Security, Inc, and Bradley Spengler to pay $259,900.50 in legal fees to my attorneys, O’Melveny and Meyers. The court awarded about half what we asked for, courts usually do reduce awards. There is no new comment at this time, but please see my comment upon asking for the award of legal fees.
Here are all of the case documents.
Earlier on SN:
Bruce Perens Wants to Anti-SLAPP GRSecurity's Brad Spengler With $670,000 in Legal Bills (2018)
Grsecurity's Defamation Suit Against Bruce Perens Dismissed (2017)
Bruce Perens Warns of Potential Contributory Infringement Risk for Grsecurity Customers (2017)
(Score: 5, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday June 12 2018, @01:52AM (1 child)
I remember you, Bruce. Take those fuckers out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @06:42AM
"I am Batmu . . . "
"I am Bruce!"
Monty Python "Bruce" ?
Australian "Bruce"?
Oh, "Bruce Perens" Bruce. Ok, nice he is fighting the good fight.
After the total bollocks he did with "Open Source" in an attempt to sell out the free software movement to his desired (but ultimately lost) Corporate masters. Poor Bruce. At least he is not ESR, and not begging on the internets.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Tuesday June 12 2018, @07:51AM (1 child)
And fifty cents?
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @01:42PM
The court awarded about half what we asked for
Don't think the legal types don't have a sense of humour.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by FakeBeldin on Tuesday June 12 2018, @09:31AM (5 children)
Bruce Perens.... Bruce Perens.... the name rings a bell, but I can't quite put my finger on it at the moment.
Can someone remind me which side to cheer for and why?
(yes, too lazy to check the three links whose titles do not clarify which side to cheer for)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @02:01PM (1 child)
RTFLinks
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @03:20PM
OK, I've read the links. All of them go to perens.com (not counting those under "Earlier on SN" which, of course, go to SoylentNews).
I get it: We are supposed to cheer Perens, as the pages on his own site are most probably not exactly biased against him, right? :-)
(Score: 3, Funny) by darkfeline on Tuesday June 12 2018, @06:58PM (2 children)
I read it as Brace Parens. Clearly a top notch C programmer.
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Tuesday June 12 2018, @09:52PM (1 child)
Is that "{()}" or "{}()"?
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @11:11PM
Okay, I know from experience what the left one is.
What's the one on the right? Pictorial for 'gay' somehow?