Liability of Users for Patent Infringement
Liability of Users for Patent Infringement
Posted Apr 24, 2011 21:58 UTC (Sun) by orcmid (guest, #74478)In reply to: Liability of Users for Patent Infringement by wahern
Parent article: Google Linux servers hit with $5m patent infringement verdict (The Register)
I got tired looking through it, and I don't think one can find actual exhibits or expert testimony.
What is interesting is that some of these companies have extensive web farms for their own operations. We know that Google's uses Linux. I presume these other users do also.
It is interesting that hosting services are included. I assume because they are engaging in commerce by leasing the use of LAMP-based hosted sites, etc. So my hosting service could easily make it onto this list, not to mention sites where I am an user (Facebook, amazon.com, etc.). Ick.
I suppose free cloud services (E.g., my Amazon Cloud Drive) may not be very free for long. And we all wait patiently to learn there has been a workaround that removes the infringing code from the Linux kernel.