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JBoss Offers Lawsuit Indemnification

Posted by simoniker on from the protected-shielded-sorted- dept.

prostoalex writes "JBoss Group offered its customers indemnification from potential legal problems related to patent violations and copyright lawsuits. According to Bob Bickel, JBoss VP, the move is intended to give customers more peace of mind when deciding whether to go with open-source software." The article also mentions Jboss' legal challenge to Apache Geronimo, of which Bickel said "...the letter to the Apache Software Foundation was never intended to be made public and said the conflict has been blown out of proportion."

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  1. Empty offers.. by grub · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Indemnification from who and what exactly? That's like offering supernova insurance, only suckers will buy.

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  2. Won't really know until OSS licenses are tested by FerretFrottage · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Could be a good thing, or it might just be a way to generate press and a positive spin. One area where this "protection" might be useful is in the use of AOP [and any other patented technologies/processes]. IIRC, JBoss 4.x uses and supports the use of AOP, yet AOP is patented (patent granted mid year). So if AOP is your thing and you use it and for some reason the patent holders decide to come collecting, I guess you can give them JBoss' address.

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  3. Two Obvious goals here... by rkischuk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1) To frighten the ignorant into purchasing support so that they are now indemnified.

    2) To give news outlets another opportunity to mention the friction between JBoss and Geronimo. Though they outwardly state that it's been blown out of proportion, the very mention of it in the same press release has the insidious implication that if you choose Geronimo instead of JBoss, you won't be indemnified, and JBoss could come calling in the near future.

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