"Despite stories you may have read elsewhere, Futhermore's legal claims against the Mambo community are still as good, or bad, as they ever were. One of the problems with this fight has been that many open-source supporters keep trying to see it as a battle between good open-source people and evil proprietary software goons. It's not. It never was.

As Philip H. Albert, a partner in the San Francisco-based law firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, told me last week, "This is, as described, not really an open-source case. It's more a matter of copyright infringement and contract law where it just so happens that the people being accused do open source.'"

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