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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."

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  1. Time to implement public caning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Continue allowing these suits to be brought before the court. However, if the plaintiff loses on the basis of an invalid patent, he/she will receive 100 lashes with wet bamboo strips -- the plaintiff's attorneys as well.

  2. Buy a company - get sued! by Corrado · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is really low - wait until your software gets in heavy rotation and then go after people using it. My question is why did they go after RedHat/JBoss? Why not go after the big dogs; Oracle (TopLink), BEA (Kodo), and even the JCP (EJB JPA)?

    Again, software patents are a bad idea.

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  3. Re:Conspiracy theory... by powerpointmonkey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Last time I looked at Jboss, it was written in Java, and as such is helping to Spread Sun's dominance.

    Unles of course you meant to say Sun's application server / portal server dominance, in which case, please excuse me while I fall of my chair laughing. - Neither products are going anywhere.

    Jboss is not a competitor to Sun. IBM and BEA maybe, but not Sun.

  4. Their CTO and VP Engineering have degrees in.. by mikeburke · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Economics.