Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 24.136.202.153]
on October 18, 2007 05:40 PM
I certainly hope not! A settlement may be the "easy" way out, but it would come back to bite Novell, Redhat, and (by extension) the FOSS community really hard in the end. Micro$soft would get what they want (namely, a validation of Ballmer's spurious claims), and the patent trolls will realize a new cash cow in Linux and FOSS. We'll never see the end of these possibly mostly baseless patent claims. I believe Novell, Red Hat, IBM, the FSF, et al. are obligated to fight these lawsuits if for no other reason than to ward off the resulting gang rape of open source software.
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Re: Settlement?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 24.136.202.153] on October 18, 2007 05:40 PM#