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What Red Hat and Firestar agreed toWhat Red Hat and Firestar agreed to
[Front] Posted Jul 15, 2008 13:45 UTC (Tue) by corbet
On July 15, Red Hat and Firestar released the terms of the settlement [PDF] of their patent suit. When we last looked at this settlement, those terms were not available. Now we can examine exactly what was agreed to and assess the degree of protection that Red Hat actually negotiated for the wider community. It may be tempting to say that recent events have reduced the relevance of this settlement, but that would be a mistake; what Red Hat has done here still matters. Click below (subscribers only) for the full text.
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