Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 58.179.122.143]
on October 19, 2007 12:14 AM
Linux is different. Patent case better be valid. Normally attacking one Linux distro without a valid one could have a very large ripple effect.
Its possible that they have indirectly attacked hp and ibm coders. This is not like Mac. Combined worth and patent holdings of linux developer providing companies dwarf anything in the computer world. Almost every business on earth is dwarfed by it. So really they have attacked a giant. It could turn into another SCO case if its not valid. Were there was not enough room in court for media due to lawyers representing over parties. To be correct a 500 set court room still left another 6 times outside. Mind lots had just sent one parties covering many parities too.
Now if all paritys are in agreement on the Linux side to fight it is cheep. Each party just needed to kick in 1 USD a day to fund a full legal team. This is the problem Linux combind fighting stuff is cheep. But really expensive for the other side.
This is the other problem Microsoft is finding too. Redhat might decide not to buy the patent at all. But have a third party acquire it under the right license. As well if patent can be coded around Linux world will. Apple would have to go back and redevelop.
Lets just say the company has balls attacking the linux world requires them. It is safer attacking Microsoft and Apple. They are less likely to invest lots of resources searching for prior art, coding around so they don't have to pay and using third parties. In the SCO case SUN was the proxy even if SCO won the Linux guys were not paying. Question is Apple the proxy this time or someone else. They need to start looking over the shoulder they might already be screwed. Ie someone with a fairly open licence to use patent anyway they see fit submited code to the effected protect so protecting Novell and Redhat.
Ie patents acquired from other parties are not a wise thing to use against linux.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 58.179.122.143] on October 19, 2007 12:14 AMIts possible that they have indirectly attacked hp and ibm coders. This is not like Mac. Combined worth and patent holdings of linux developer providing companies dwarf anything in the computer world. Almost every business on earth is dwarfed by it. So really they have attacked a giant. It could turn into another SCO case if its not valid. Were there was not enough room in court for media due to lawyers representing over parties. To be correct a 500 set court room still left another 6 times outside. Mind lots had just sent one parties covering many parities too.
Now if all paritys are in agreement on the Linux side to fight it is cheep. Each party just needed to kick in 1 USD a day to fund a full legal team. This is the problem Linux combind fighting stuff is cheep. But really expensive for the other side.
This is the other problem Microsoft is finding too. Redhat might decide not to buy the patent at all. But have a third party acquire it under the right license. As well if patent can be coded around Linux world will. Apple would have to go back and redevelop.
Lets just say the company has balls attacking the linux world requires them. It is safer attacking Microsoft and Apple. They are less likely to invest lots of resources searching for prior art, coding around so they don't have to pay and using third parties. In the SCO case SUN was the proxy even if SCO won the Linux guys were not paying. Question is Apple the proxy this time or someone else. They need to start looking over the shoulder they might already be screwed. Ie someone with a fairly open licence to use patent anyway they see fit submited code to the effected protect so protecting Novell and Redhat.
Ie patents acquired from other parties are not a wise thing to use against linux.
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