● 06.11.08

●● Red Hat Pays Intellectual Monopoly Money

Posted in Courtroom, GNU/Linux, Novell, Patents, Red Hat at 6:28 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

This just in:

Red Hat settles 2 patent lawsuits filed against it

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Financial terms of the settlements were not disclosed.

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Red Hat Vice President Rob Tiller said the company is still defending itself against a third patent complaint filed in October 2007 by IP Innovation LLC and Technology Licensing Corp.

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Remember what IP Innovation might really be [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10].

Red Hat will soon host its own summit and it will have ‘friends’ like Novell nearby. Maybe it can ‘thank’ Novell for pushing further the software patents agenda.

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Imagine if the Los Angeles Lakers held a fan rally in Boston, right in the Celtics’ back yard. That’s the situation facing the open source industry, where the Red Hat Summit starts June 18 right in Boston — roughly 15 miles from Novell’s corporate headquarters.

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Any more discouraging news from the land of mathematical patents? █

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