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Red Hat Vows To Stand Up To Patent Intimidation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stiff-upper-lip dept.

mrcgran writes "Eweek is reporting on Red Hat's assurances that can continue to deploy Linux without fear of legal retribution from Microsoft. This, despite the increasingly vocal threats emanating from Redmond. 'In a scathing response to Ballmer's remarks, Red Hat's IP team said the reality is that the community development approach of free and open-source code represents a healthy development paradigm, which, when viewed from the perspective of pending lawsuits related to intellectual property, is at least as safe as proprietary software. "We are also aware of no patent lawsuit against Linux. Ever. Anywhere," the team said in a blog posting.'"

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  1. Finally by alexborges · · Score: 0, Troll

    Finaly, someone found their lost balls (the same wusses that would not fight the decss fight), and is willing to put their might in. Redhat + IBM should be enough to keep the redmond assholes quite at bay while Linux kicks their buts out of a sizeable chunk of the serverspace, at the very least.

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  2. No lawsuit against Linux? Or Open src sftw? by shafty023 · · Score: 0, Troll

    So I read Red Hat's statement that they've never been heard of a lawsuit against Linux. Did that also include companies using open source software? The company I work for is being sued as we speak for using apache/tomcat for our company website. Apparently that 3-tier method of supplying a page is patented by some IP company. I forget their name. Either way, other major online companies like Amazon I think were hit with this same infringement and they've settled out of court. It's stuff like this that scares people away from using open source. No protection from IP violations.