Comments on: Red Hat Needs to be Transparent and Explain the Acacia Settlement http://techrights.org/2010/10/06/patent-settlement-with-acacia/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 03 Jan 2017 04:31:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: twitter http://techrights.org/2010/10/06/patent-settlement-with-acacia/comment-page-1/#comment-101734 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:06:50 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=40178#comment-101734 Florian gets worse every day. Siding with patent troll Acacia is a new low point.

]]> By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2010/10/06/patent-settlement-with-acacia/comment-page-1/#comment-101679 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:58:04 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=40178#comment-101679 Ask him how much Microsoft paid him and how. See how he responds.

]]> By: gnufreex http://techrights.org/2010/10/06/patent-settlement-with-acacia/comment-page-1/#comment-101678 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:40:27 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=40178#comment-101678 All companies that are viewed as “cloud computing” players got beaten up yesterday on wall street:

Red Hat lost 9%
Citrix lost 14%
Rackspace lost 11%
VM_Bware lost 9%
Equinix lost 30%

http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2010/10/06/earnings-season-kicks-off-with-a-public-execution/

So it’s unlikely that MSFT is behind stock dip. But they are sure sending mobbyists to plug first comment on LWN in hope they can set people against Red Hat
http://lwn.net/Articles/408660/

]]> By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2010/10/06/patent-settlement-with-acacia/comment-page-1/#comment-101674 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 05:00:48 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=40178#comment-101674 @gnufreex: Exactly. I will do another post about it later today.

]]> By: twitter http://techrights.org/2010/10/06/patent-settlement-with-acacia/comment-page-1/#comment-101655 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:26:02 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=40178#comment-101655 I wonder if they also launched a whisper campaign and or stock manipulation fraud. Red Hat’s share price took a 7% beating today on huge volume. It’s all very fishy.

]]> By: gnufreex http://techrights.org/2010/10/06/patent-settlement-with-acacia/comment-page-1/#comment-101654 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:12:12 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=40178#comment-101654 I was thinking the same. Acacia is in cahoots with Microsoft, and Microsoft is interested in FUD these days. Maybe Red Hat got GPL-compatible settlement in exchange for silence, so that Microsoft Mobbyists can go wild. They are already inventing theories that Red Hat got Novellized.

]]> By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2010/10/06/patent-settlement-with-acacia/comment-page-1/#comment-101647 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:00:46 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=40178#comment-101647 A Firestar lawyer has shown me that Red Hat did make an announcement when others got covered.

http://press.redhat.com/2008/07/15/a-readers-guide-to-the-firestar-settlement/

]]> By: Jose_X http://techrights.org/2010/10/06/patent-settlement-with-acacia/comment-page-1/#comment-101645 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:50:21 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=40178#comment-101645 Red Hat likely took the NDA approach and perhaps because Acadia/etc paid them.

I’m not trying to get people off Red Hat’s back, but I would not want people to assume Acadia won because that could very well be the exact intended effect of an NDA and why Acadia would then have had to give Red Hat something of value.

Yes, I don’t like NDAs. Maybe this one lasts for a modest term or Red Hat got something very valuable (that hopefully does not hurt the community or overly enrich their execs at our cost).

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