This is especially sweet for me, not more than a few days ago I mentioned this very company trying to shake down TrueTech about 10 years ago :)
Props to RedHat, at least some companies are standing up to this bullshit in stead of paying them off so they have a bigger warchest to go after the next target.
Ugh. The least we could do is prevent companies who don't produce software from litigating on software patents. This "IP Innovation" place is just a patent troll.
Shrug. We own a few thousand licenses for each, but if you're experiences are different, that's cool. Either way, the point I'm making is that most business who use Linux use it because it's a great server OS.
Sure the licenses are cheaper, but in the end the license is only a minimal part of what it costs to keep a server in the air over an extended period of time.
And he did it very poorly, that's the point they are making, and I agree with them. When I read one-liners like that, it makes Jon Stewart's "Appholes" piece look a lot like genuine tech journalism. Don't you think it's about time mainstream news outlets upped their tech game instead of giving the public stupid, non-factual, linkbait reporting?
Groklaw has the story here,
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100430223358785 ,
with plenty of back-story links, including search for prior art. One of them says:
The patent is for "user interface with multiple workspaces for sharing display system objects"
Props to RedHat, at least some companies are standing up to this bullshit in stead of paying them off so they have a bigger warchest to go after the next target.