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Wallace v. International Business Machines Corp.

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was enacted to assure customers the benefits of price competition, and have emphasized the act's primary purpose of protecting the economic freedom of participants in the relevant market. This decision thus supports the right of authors and content creators to offer their creations free of charge.
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Wallace has had two chances to amend his complaint . His continuing failure to state an antitrust claim indicates that the complaint has "inherent internal flaws." Wallace will not be granted further leave to file an amended complaint because the court finds that such amendment would be
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he GPL encourages, rather than discourages, free competition and the distribution of computer operating systems, the benefits of which directly pass to consumers. These benefits include lower prices, better access and more
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In 2006, Daniel Wallace filed a lawsuit against the software companies IBM, Novell, and Red Hat, who profit from the distribution of
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operating system. Wallace's allegation was that these software companies were engaging in anticompetitive price fixing.
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Daniel Wallace v. International Business Machines Corporation; Red Hat, Inc.; and Novell, Inc.
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prevented him from making a profit from selling his own operating system.
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Plaintiff Daniel Wallace's Memorandum on Motion for Summary Judgment
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On April 28, 2005, Daniel Wallace filed suit against the FSF in the
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The Court also noted that prior cases have established that the
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U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
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United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
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United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
F.3d
1104
Frank Easterbrook
Michael Stephen Kanne
Terence T. Evans
Sherman Antitrust Act
free software
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
United States law
GNU General Public License
federal antitrust laws
United States
Free Software Foundation
price fixing
IBM
Novell
Red Hat
Linux
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
GPL
price fixing
without prejudice
John Daniel Tinder
Sherman Act
open-source software
Linux
Richard L. Young
Seventh Circuit Appeal Court
de novo

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