degree that this "partneship" depends upon prior art?
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| vainrveenr Feb 17, 2009 2:35 PM EDT |
PJ's Groklaw reported yesterday that 'Red Hat Is Asking for Prior Art', http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090216150306923
Quoting:Red Hat could use our help finding prior art in connection with the patent infringement litigation brought by IP Innovation, LLC, a subsidiary of Acacia against Red Hat and Novell.Since Acacia may be connected with Microsoft (see http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071011205044141), then how large a sum was passed between Microsoft and Red Hat in relation to both the ongoing prior art litigation and the current virtualization (virustrualization?) deal ??? - Red Hat's PR statement on the strongly "customer-demanded", "interoperability" deal at http://www.redhat.com/promo/svvp/?intcmp=70160000000HiHHAA0 - Matt Asay's CNET piece 'Microsoft, Red Hat to interoperate patent-free' at http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10164907-16.html - Current LXer thread on the MS-RH deal at http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/28530/ |
| DarrenR114 Feb 17, 2009 1:22 PM EDT |
When is Roy S. gonna start the "Boycott Redhat" website? |
| tracyanne Feb 17, 2009 2:09 PM EDT |
Quoting:....the "Boycott Redhat" website?.... Thinking the same thing myself. |
| herzeleid Feb 17, 2009 4:02 PM EDT |
No, I would be surprised if Roy did anything like that - after all, its not like redhat made some sleazy secret deal with microsoft for a separate peace, at the expense of the linux community as a whole. No, redhat did this the right way IMHO. |
| DarrenR114 Feb 18, 2009 6:58 AM EDT |
This deal (Redhat-Microsoft) is no more transparent to the FLOSS community than the much maligned Novell-Microsoft deal. In fact, it looks to be justified for much the same reason with much the same objectives: "Our customers are DEMANDING interoperability with Microsoft." |
| dinotrac Feb 18, 2009 7:37 AM EDT |
DarrenR -- Stop that!!! Inconvenient truths are supposed to be about the climate, not free software. |
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