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Re: [News] Red Hat Starts Fighting Against Software Patents More Aggressively

Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Red Hat Asks Federal Court To Limit Patents On Software
> 
> No surprise there.  The company sponges off the community for the code
> and then sells it along with services like tech support when it doesn't
> work. The last thing Redhat wants is for their free cash cow to now cost
> them money.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23366103/

[quote]
Microsoft’s actions stifled innovation, hurting millions of people who
use computers in offices around the world, she said, calling the fine “a
reasonable response to a series of quite unreasonable actions.”

The software titan fought hard against the EU’s 2004 decision that
ordered it to share interoperability information with rivals and sell a
version of Windows without media software, taking an appeal to an EU court
that it lost last September.

It was fined again in July 2006 — $357 million — for failing to obey
that order.

The EU alleged that Microsoft withheld crucial interoperability
information to squeeze into a new market and damage rivals that make
programs for workgroup servers that help office computers connect to each
other and to printers and faxes.

The company delayed complying with the EU order for three years, the EU
said, only making changes on Oct. 22 to the patent licenses it charges
companies that need data to help them make software that works with
Microsoft.
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