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Red Hat Claims Patent On SOAP Over CGI

Posted by kdawson on from the wash-your-mouth-out dept.

WMGarrison writes "US Patent 7453593 claims command-line processing by a web server of SOAP requests, resulting in XML responses, from and to a remote client. The HTTP Common Gateway Interface (CGI) operates precisely as described in Claim 1. If you POST a SOAP document and return an XHTML response or a SOAP document, this infringes Claim 2, since both XHTML and SOAP are XML languages. This patent thus claims to own the processing of SOAP documents by CGI programs."

4 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. This is a patent I can get behind by haystor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If this results in the abandonment of SOAP, I'm all for it.

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  2. Fix the patent laws with anti cancer drugs by unlametheweak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OK, to save companies time and money (except for the Trolls and parasites), just get rid of software patents already. It's not good for buyers or sellers. It's not good for employees. It only benefits lawyers and patent troll parasites. Patent reform shouldn't take years, it should take days. I don't want to see another story like this ever again.

  3. Defensive patents by Richard+W.M.+Jones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These are defensive patents. You have to file them if you're in the US software business, or else risk getting sued for $billions. Read how Red Hat licenses their patent portfolio to all open source projects.

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  4. RIP by thethibs · · Score: 5, Funny

    With any luck, this will finally put SOAP to REST.

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