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contact them?contact them?Posted Jun 26, 2008 4:33 UTC (Thu) by louie (subscriber, #3285)In reply to: contact them? by corbet Parent article: A belated look at the Red Hat/Firestar patent settlement
"This very carefully-worded text leaves one very interesting question open: what about users of the software who are not Red Hat customers? ... There is a lot of text in the press release and FAQ suggesting that non-customer users should be protected too, but that is never said explicitly. An omission like that in a carefully-written, lawyer-vetted document can speak loudly; one must wonder what is going on." This doesn't quite say 'RH carefully and deliberately left non-RH users unprotected', but it pretty much strongly implies it. Admittedly, 'screwing them' is a bit strong, but isn't that big a jump from the implication that they were deliberately omitted.
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contact them? Posted Jun 26, 2008 8:58 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link] >> "This very carefully-worded text leaves one very interesting question >> open: what about users of the software who are not Red Hat customers? ... >> There is a lot of text in the press release and FAQ suggesting that >> non-customer users should be protected too, but that is never said >> explicitly. An omission like that in a carefully-written, lawyer-vetted >> document can speak loudly; one must wonder what is going on." > > This doesn't quite say 'RH carefully and deliberately > unprotected', but it pretty much strongly implies it. Well, I have to say: No, neither the article nor your quotation implies that. It says 'It looks as if RH left non-RH users unprotected'. In no way it implies that this was deliberately done; and I also can't read the statement that this *action* was carefully done into these sentences. Quite to the contrary, your reading suggests that your involvement with RH Legal seems to have left your nerves too raw. Just my 0.02 EUR from an uninvolved reader. (I don't use RH and that patent very probably isn't valid in my part of the world anyhow.)
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