Nice double whammy

I assume that the patent consortium made the broad upstream/downstream shielding of free
software projects deal for all their patents to prevent Red Hat from invalidation that one
patent in court. Only to find out when it was too late that Red Hat and Sun had already
exchanged the information to get the patent thrown out anyway.

But yeah, it depends on who thought they made the best deal in the first place. It looks to me
the free software community got broad protection from a range of patents from
Firestar/DataTern/Amphion through the deal and then the troll still got one of its essential
patents invalidated. But without financial detail from Red Hat we will indeed never know if it
was brave or foolish of them.