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Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal
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Rick |
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Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal |
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Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:14:50 -0500 |
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:26:16 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:
(snip)
> The patents don't protect the "community" - it only protects Redhat
> customers. From your very own link:
>
> <http://www.itnews.com.au/News/78210,red-hat-settles-hibernate-patent-
suits.aspx>
>
> [quote]
> Red Hat claims that the terms of the settlement will offer broad
> protection for upstream developers, downstream distributors and Red
> Hat's customers.
>
> "We wanted broad provisions that covered OUR CUSTOMERS, who place trust
> in us, and the open source community, whose considerable efforts benefit
> our business," said a statement from Red Hat's in-house lawyer Rob
> Tiller. [/quote]
"We wanted broad provisions that covered OUR CUSTOMERS, who place trust
in us, and the open source community",
... covered our customers and the open source community.
>
>
> If someone isn't a paying Redhat customer then they get ZERO protection.
> Quite hypocritical because Redhat screamed bloody murder when Novell
> signed what is effectively the exact same deal with Microsoft.
>
>
(snip)
I have given you other resources that say the settlement protects RH
customers .. and the OSS community.
--
Rick
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, (continued)
Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Ezekiel, 2008/06/14
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Rick, 2008/06/13
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Moshe Goldfarb., 2008/06/14
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Ezekiel, 2008/06/14
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal,
Rick <=
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Ezekiel, 2008/06/15
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Rick, 2008/06/14
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/06/14