Fantasy Sports is open source?

This should be welcome news to a growing segment of the sports industry. WhatIfSports.com had to take down their site in the spring to strip out all of the names of current Major League Baseball players in response to the league’s initial attempts to control — and eventually profit — from the success of fantasy sports leagues in this country. Today’s ruling by a federal judge ought to bring Barry Bonds back to sim sports.

Something similar happened at the height of the Dot Com boom when Patrick Hughes, owner of Fantasysports, claimed patent infringement against free fantasy sports games offered by Yahoo! and CBSSportsline. It took a couple years before judges kicked that out, too.