In reply to Samuel "Otto" Wood.

@markk5 Clearly you are mistaken in your assumptions somewhere. The fact is that the court very clearly did not understand, since they came to the incorrect conclusions. You cannot actually understand something that is technical in nature and still get the wrong answer. More to the point, this isn't even a matter of applying old law to new situations, This is a matter of applying old law to old situations. See, this isn't "new", by any stretch, the basic principles here have not been any different than they were since the 1960's. People have been creating work-alikes for a very long time.

Read the list of amici curiae yourself, and pay special attention to the 32 names at the top of it. If you are a programmer of open source software, you should recognize more than a few of them: