After the EFF and MPAA briefs pass as ships in the night to Judge Kaplan's chambers, we wait to see whom he gives what grounds for appeal...and how soon. Time, perhaps, for a mid-term assessment of the Openlaw strategy (or more likely, for more law-firm-associate hacking at briefs and research questions).

(so, how does the trust metric deal with certifications on different scales -- I'm here more on the strength of my legal work, supporting open source/free sofware through work with the Berkman Center and its Openlaw project, than my unsightly Perl programming, I'm sure -- can I certify others based on their participation in the DeCSS defense?)

(and why do these textboxes keep eating my quotation marks?)