Antonio Olivares wrote:
Dear all,
In midst of the Microsoft Linux deals, Novell, Xandros, Linspire, ..., etc. The question arises will Red Hat fall into Microsoft's deals?
http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070614/38396_id.html?.v=1
Inquiring minds want to know.
I hope that it does not fall into these kinds of pacts.
Regards,
Antonio
Some have speculated that with the SCO copyright farce winding down MS
has to try a new tactic against linux. It looks like software patents
are the next big show.
Patent fights are nothing new, and a lot of case law and legal strategy
is on the books. How and when to launch an IP/patent attack, when to
fight or pull back, etc.
Kudos to RedHat for sticking to their guns. Unix predates MS-anything by
decades so it's all kind of humorous.
I don't think s/w patents even existed when Unix, X-Window, MS-Windows,
Mac, Dos, Apple I/II/Lisa, CP/M, etc. were originally written, let alone
all the Sperry-Univac, DEC, IBM monolithic systems.
That's a lot of prior art. Useful in an IP battle.
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John
