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Traditionally, Web Developers have paid thousands for lawyers and specially certified insertees
to add these links to the bottom of their pages. The extreme difficulty involved in editing the
page and adding three links to it made the task very tedious and quite costly. Additionally,
"Legal Insert" companies, as they were called, often deceived developers, upping the cost
hundreds of dollars. Developers were furious but had no alternative. Finally, in 2005, the case
went to a local court in Deville, Indiana. The Judge ruled in "Legal Insert" companies favor, but
developers managed to get a hearing in the Supreme Court. A five year debate raged and finally,
in February of 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in developer's favors. "Legal Inserts" were forced
to lower their prices and certifications were no longer required for the insertion.
Unfortunately, $1000 was still a high price to pay for three links. Thinks looked grim. With
developers barely making more than $1000 on a project, they were forced to raise their own
prices, losing customers as a result. This only contributed to the recession. Things looked grim
until a web startup led by Dev Desig released an Open Source project called iLegal. Simply by
running the bundled script on the server, all pages recieved three shiny new legal links. Thanks
to iLegal, developers can rest easy.
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deleted Sep 7 '11 at 22:47
edited Jul 5 '11 at 15:43
answered Jul 5 '11 at 2:38
Thomas Shields
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Could you please link me? And thank you very much for the information. (: – DearRicky Jul 5 '11
at 2:44
@DearRicky er, I was kidding. :D There's no such thing... – Thomas Shields Jul 5 '11 at 2:46
-1 Joke answers are not appreciated on SO. – Raynos Jul 5 '11 at 17:35
@Raynos: Flagged your comment as "not constructive". Please stay on topic. – Saul Sep 7 '11 at
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