Comments on: How Red Hat Dodged a Novell-Like Microsoft Deal Despite Lobbying for Software Patents http://techrights.org/2009/03/25/how-red-hat-dodged-a-novell-like-deal-despite-lobbying-for-software-patents/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pieter Hintjens http://techrights.org/2009/03/25/how-red-hat-dodged-a-novell-like-deal-despite-lobbying-for-software-patents/comment-page-1/#comment-60911 Pieter Hintjens Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:21:00 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=7407#comment-60911 Roy, Nice article. It's seemed to many of us in the FOSS community that the patents were the ultimate way for larger firms to control and profit from the FOSS economy. This is why, IMO, IBM can enthusiastically collect patents while also investing in open source. I see William has submitted his article to Slashdot, it's here in the firehose: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=3892567&art_pos=2 Roy,

Nice article. It’s seemed to many of us in the FOSS community that the patents were the ultimate way for larger firms to control and profit from the FOSS economy. This is why, IMO, IBM can enthusiastically collect patents while also investing in open source.

I see William has submitted his article to Slashdot, it’s here in the firehose: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=3892567&art_pos=2

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