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MS Interoperability event - summary
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| Oliver came up to the front (he was not on the panel) and said that today no
| one from MS says that and that only the open source community says that. I
| said that only - within the last two weeks, that this was repeated. Oliver
| then went on to say that Red Hat should be happy to take MS patents and make
| money out of it and in doing so, MS would want a cut. The comment was not
| accepted by me and I handwaved to the moderator to move on as it was not the
| thrust of the my question.
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http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/154849.html
Recent:
Red Hat VP explains software patent threat at Linux Expo
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| Rob Tiller, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Red Hat,
| explained the need for patent reform and discussed the implications of the
| recent Bilski decision during a presentation on Saturday at the Southern
| Cailfornia Linux Expo (SCALE).
|
| The patent system, which was originally conceived as an instrument for
| promoting progress by encouraging disclosure of inventions, is poorly suited
| to accommodate the complexities of modern innovation. The Patent Office isn't
| equipped to process the rapidly growing volume of technical patent filings
| and the boundaries of patentability aren't drawn clearly enough to block
| excessively broad patents.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/ars-at-scale-red-hat-vp-explains-software-patent-threat.ars
The Software Freedom Law Show
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| Richard Fontana, Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel from Red Hat, joins
| us for an in-depth interview.
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2009/jan/06/0x04/
Related:
Red Hat's new chief: A pragmatic believer?
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| Does the patent settlement you announced recently [with FireStar Software]
| that is consistent with the GPL mean that you are in a better position to be
| able to settle your patent dispute with Microsoft?
|
| [Jim Whitehurst:] The problem is that we don't know what the Microsoft
| [patent threat] is. They have said in the past that 235 patents [are
| infringed by Linux] and we have yet to see what any of them are.
| Conceptually, it should be possible but, again, we don't know what we are
| talking about there.
|
| When was the last time you spoke to Microsoft regarding patents?
|
| [Jim Whitehurst:] I am sure, as a company, we have an ongoing dialogue on a
| lot of things. I have had dialogue at a senior level, but it has been more on
| how we can work better on interoperability for customers; I haven't had any
| direct conversations around the patent issue.
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http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/features/0,1000002000,39436604,00.htm
Red Hat settles 2 patent lawsuits filed against it
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| Red Hat, the world's biggest seller of Linux software, said it has settled
| patent claims by Firestar Software Inc, filed in 2006, and DataTern Inc,
| filed this year.
|
| Financial terms of the settlements were not disclosed.
|
| Red Hat Vice President Rob Tiller said the company is still defending itself
| against a third patent complaint filed in October 2007 by IP Innovation LLC
| and Technology Licensing Corp.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1035078820080611
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