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Comparing Red Hat’s patent settlement with the Microsoft-Novell agreement
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| Novell did precisely not sign a patent agreement with Microsoft debunking any
| claims or myths related to FOSS infringing Microsoft’s “intellectual
| property”. It implicitly did just the contrary: Microsoft and Novell were
| teaming up to “protect” Novell customers against patent claims made by…
| Microsoft.
| The agreement was only covering Novell customers (not even OpenSuse users)
| and was at the same time contradicting the GPL (v2). Red Hat’s settlement
| does not seem to conflict with any version of the GPL as it places no burden
| or extra deeds on users and developers of GPLv3 software (More on that
| later).
| There was no prior art, no litigation, and perhaps as important as the rest,
| the Novell-Microsoft agreement involved money. Lots of it . On the other
| hand, Red Hat received to my knowledge no payment for the settlement and as a
| future outcome, no strong incentive to do business with the plaintiffs and
| have its existing customers sign some dubious “software patent insurance”.
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http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/06/17/comparing-red-hats-patent-settlement-with-the-microsoft-novell-agreement/#comment-886
Recent:
Red Hat Makes History With Patent Settlement - Compatible with GPLv3
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| Here's what Eben Moglen says about the agreement:
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| "Red Hat’s settlement of outstanding patent litigation on terms that
| provide
| additional protection to other members of the community upstream and
| downstream from Red Hat is a positive contribution to the resources
| for community patent defense. We would hope to see more settlements
| of this kind–in which parties secure more than their own particular
| legal advantage in relation to the third-party patent risk of the
| whole FOSS community–when commercial redistributors of FOSS choose
| to settle patent litigation. SFLC welcomes Red Hat’s efforts on the
| community’s behalf."
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080611191302741
Novell needed this lesson
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| This is what the Novell/Microsoft secret pact should have been - instead of
| throwing the rest of the open source community under the bus, Novell should
| have pushed for broader coverage and been open about it all. Look and learn
| Novell, don't be so slimy and see how the a real leader operates.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-06-11-013-26-NW-RH-LL-0000
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