The Oracle Anti Patent-Threat Conspiracy
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| Now with the SCO vs. Novell case coming to a close and with the continued
| threats spewed by Microsoft about patent violations against the Linux
| community after the Novell deal, I’m left wondering if it can be, that Red
| Hat and its partners got wind of the emerging deal between Novell and
| Microsoft, which after all took month to accomplish. Can it be, that Oracle
| scrambled to Red Hat’s help, by producing effectively the same product?
| Because if Microsoft would sue Red Hat, they would be suing also Oracle which
| distributes the very same product!? Or at least Oracle would have good
| reasons to defend Red Hat. Was this a warning sign to Microsoft? At least it
| would explain, why the database giant started its own RHEL clone...
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https://blog.startcom.org/?p=34
Peer-to-Patent pilot steers toward change
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| Currently there are nine patent applications up on the project's Web site. In
| the first two weeks of the project, the project signed up 1,000 active
| contributors, according to Noveck. The largest volume of discussion, however,
| seems to be taking place on Groklaw. Noveck welcomes other communities to get
| involved, talk about the applications, do research, and share information
| with the USPTO through Peer-to-Patent.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118349
Related:
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| You'll often hear members of our open source team say, "Every
| time you use Google, you're using Linux." It's absolutely true. Check
| a Google engineer's workstation, and you'll probably find it's running
| Linux. Do a search on Google.com, and a Linux server will return your
| results. Ever since Google got its start, Linux has given us the power
| and flexibility we need to serve millions of users around the world.
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| In turn, we feel a strong responsibility to the Linux community, and
| we're always looking for creative ways to put our resources in the
| hands of Linux developers. That's why today we became a licensee of
| the Open Invention Network (OIN), an innovative patent-sharing
| organization founded to create a legally protected environment for
| anyone who works with Linux.
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| The concept behind OIN is simple. All OIN licensees, including
| participants such as IBM, Oracle, NEC and Sony, agree to cross-license
| their Linux-related patents to the others free of charge. Patent
| issues therefore become a much smaller concern inside the community,
| and OIN members can focus their energy on writing and releasing
| software rather than vetting their code for intellectual property
| issues. It's the legal equivalent of taking a long, deep breath.
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/joining-oin.html
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