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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?"

3 of 95 comments (clear)

  1. Re:This is pure speculation on the author's part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Perens is just trying to grasp at relevancy. It's the same with his BusyBox trolling.

  2. Re:This is pure speculation on the author's part by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Didn't you know? Perens is now a professional opensource troll. FUD is part of his job description.

  3. Re:Dear Slashdot, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think most journalists, failed or skipped middle school. In fact the word journalist, is errantly applied 99.99999% of the time. Most people who go to journalism school are fags and bimbos.