Red Hat adds top intellectual property lawyers (Linux-Watch)
It's a sign of the times when a major open-source company makes a big deal of hiring not top developers, but top lawyers. On March 5, Red Hat announced that it is hiring top intellectual property attorneys Robert Tiller, as vice president and assistant general counsel, and Richard Fontana, as open-source licensing and patent counsel."
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