[nylug-talk] Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell

[Kevin Mark]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:38:17PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
>    Reading the comments in the Slashdot, Digg, and Groklaw stories on the 
> subject also bring another interesting question: if Acacia don't actually 
> sell any related product, how can they claim DAMAGES for patent infringement?

IIRC a company can buy patents, so KFC can by a patent for c compiler
optimation, therefore you dont have to 'sell related products'. Funny
thing, today I went to the Software Freedom Law Center summit and no one
mentioned this? My guess is that we all saw it comming a mile away and
believe that all this will end like the SCO affair -- Gnu 1 - Trolls 0!
This seem just to be 'round 2' now that SCO has been decimated. And as
to why Novell and RH, what would you get from a FLOSS developer: pocket
lint and bad PR. What do you get from LINUX MEGA CORP: green paper!

K
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