I just enjoyed the prominent comment of Jon on the frontpage of LWN:
| Leading items and editorials | | Interesting court cases is the theme of the week. Some LWN readers | have been heard to grumble that we spend too much time on licensing | and legal issues. Perhaps that is true, but these issues are | crucial: free software is very much at the mercy of the legal | environment in which it operates. The law can either help free | software's success, or it can make free software illegal and | impractical.