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A belated look at the Red Hat/Firestar patent settlement

A belated look at the Red Hat/Firestar patent settlement

Posted Jun 24, 2008 19:23 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
Parent article: A belated look at the Red Hat/Firestar patent settlement

Sure, it would be nice if RHT got the patent invalidated. It would be nice if they had their employees clean up trash in public parks on the clock, too. Good paper on why it's better gamesmanship to license a weak patent than to finish it off. (Yes, the same strategy also applies to Trend Micro's widely-licensed obvious antivirus gateway patent.)


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