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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 |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:12:09 -0500 |
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:19:05 -0400, Linonut wrote:
> * Rick peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> Maybe you missed the parts where the OSS community is generally unhappy
>> that Red Hat settled... and you missed the parts where Red Hat says the
>> settlement covers upstream and downstream distributors, as well as the
>> community.
>
> I don't know why they should be unhappy with it. If Free software is
> going to drive business, it will have to be protected in the same way
> that other business software is protected: by paying protection money
> to patent trolls and other scumbags.
>
> RedHat's payment is a drop in the bucket compared to what other
> companies (e.g. Microsoft) have paid out.
Apparently, the community is unhappy because they think through the suit,
the patent might have been invalidated.
--
Rick
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- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Hadron, 2008/06/15
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- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Hadron, 2008/06/16
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Moshe Goldfarb., 2008/06/16
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, 2008/06/13
- 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