Blizzard Asks Judge to Forbid Open Source

Courtesy Linux Today  Thu, 07/31/2008 - 07:00

OStatic: "Now that I've got your attention, don't worry too much: Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind the popular World of Warcraft online game, isn't trying to shut down open source software entirely.

But in a recent legal filing (reported by the Virtually Blind weblog), they are asking a judge to take an unusual move: prohibiting a developer from releasing a particular bit of code as open source."


 

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