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Red Hat Sued Over Hibernate ORM Patent Claim

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the done-it-first dept.

fmarines writes "Firestar Software has filed a patent claim against Red Hat for infringing on a patent Firestar filed in 2000 covering O/R mapping. The amount of the lawsuit was not disclosed. The complaint centers around JBoss 3, and the patent claims that JBoss was given prior notice that marketing, distribution, and support services violates Firestar's patent, and that Firestar 'has suffered and will continue to suffer substantial damages.' Firestar produces the ObjectSpark, an transactional object mapping engine which appears to not have had a new release since May 2003, according to the Firestar press release page."

5 of 170 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Conspiracy theory... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Of course! That's it! Except you left out the bit about the black helic... gotta go, I can hear them coming for me..

  2. Re:Time to implement public caning by smittyoneeach · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And if the plaintiff is not a hermaphrodite?

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  3. Re:Time for Red Hat to leave the USA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    they've already left the USA, they're in the People's Republic of Massachusetts.

  4. ho8o by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Declined in market THat has lost EFNet servers.

  5. Re:This is the definition of an obvious patent by Reverend528 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is offtopic, but what's with modding posts "overrated" when they have no other moderations?

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