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Rackspace Goes On Rampage Against Patent Trolls

Posted by timothy on from the there-should-be-blood dept.

girlmad writes "Rackspace has come out fighting against one of the U.S.'s most notorious patent trolls, Parallel Iron. The cloud services firm said it's totally fed up with trolls of all kinds, which have caused a 500 percent rise in its legal bills. Rackspace was last week named among 12 firms accused of infringing Parallel Iron's Hadoop Distributed File System patents. Rackspace is now counter-suing the troll, as the firm said it has a deal in place with Parallel Iron after signing a previous patent settlement with them."

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  1. Re:The only ones who win are the lawyers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That used to be the case, but you guys are forgetting this is the 21st century. Now lobbyists make the laws, and lobbyists are paid for by the winning side.

    ... which will not be the niggers.

  2. Re:Concerted lawsuits against linux? Who's behind by muon-catalyzed · · Score: -1, Troll

    There other interesting tidbits revealed in this case. It looks like there are groups of people that actively use open source software to exploit ideas whithin them for their gains. Then companies like Rackspace that naively hurried to adopt the open source "free platforms" are now faced with unexpected "hidden fees" from patent parasites that crawl along.

  3. Going on a "rampage?" by EmagGeek · · Score: -1, Troll

    They're countersuing a single paten troll on the basis of a legal merit. How is that "going on a rampage" against patent trolls?

    Hyperbole much, Slashdot?

    I honestly don't know why I visit this site anymore. It must be the "train wreck" quality that you just can't get away from.