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Red Hat's Secret Patent Deal

Posted by Soulskill on from the where-do-penguinburgers-come-from-anyway dept.

Bruce Perens writes "When patent troll Acacia sued Red Hat in 2007, it ended with a bang: Acacia's patents were invalidated by the court, and all software developers, open-source or not, had one less legal risk to cope with. So, why is the outcome of Red Hat's next tangle with Acacia being kept secret, and how is a Texas court helping to keep it that way? Could the outcome have placed Red Hat in violation of the open-source licenses on its own product?"

4 of 95 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Oops! Another Java "thing" by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Black holes huh...

    And this whole Java thing started happening right about the time the LHC actually started working...

    I think you may be onto something... Let me get my crossbow...

  2. Re:Information wants to be free by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 4, Funny

    Post your Bank Account & PIN and find out ... ;-)

  3. Re:sealed case by PerfectionLost · · Score: 4, Funny

    this is the equivalent of the company having a ruling/ agreement but being bard from informing the developer staff.

    LMFTFY.

    this is the equivalent of the company having a ruling/agreement against bards informing the developer staff.

    We need more bards in our development staff.

  4. Re:sealed case by Byzantine · · Score: 3, Funny

    This might be more difficult than you think: can you think of a rhyme for "patent infringement"?