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Red Hat Paid $4.2m To Settle Patent Suit

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-CDs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'Red Hat paid $US4.2 million to settle a patent infringement suit brought against it by FireStar Software, an intellectual property activist claims. Florian Mueller, who made a name for himself during the campaign to prevent the adoption of software patents in Europe some years ago, said he had dug up a court filing that showed the payment had been made.' Mueller says the payment made by Red Hat was kept secret but news about it surfaced in another suit."

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  1. There's nothing here to see people by cultiv8 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Move along, now, move along...

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  2. So? by zero.kalvin · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How is this any new news ? Companies have lawsuits, sometime they win, sometime they lose. All type of companies, whether we like them or not. So really move along now, there is nothing to see.