This page permanently redirects to gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2007/10/15/acacia-comparison-sco-connection/.

● 10.15.07

●● Is Acacia SCO 2.0? Or was it Microsoft? Or Novell?

Posted in Boycott Novell, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Patents, Red Hat, Xen at 7:58 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

It’s about the timing, the money trail, and the staffing

“The next SCO” is a title attributed and grated to various companies (by ourselves and others). First it was Novell back in 2006 and then it was Microsoft in May 2007. Some people are now claiming that Acacia is another proxy that absorbs the bad PR which accompanies legal actions on behalf on a larger company. Acacia, unlike SCO, would not be suing its own customers (because it hasn’t any). As mentioned some months ago, this firm, which signed a deal with Novell is just a patent portfolio with investors whose portfolio is tied to junk patents and trolling, apparently.

=> ↺ signed a deal with Novell

I’ve just returned from a vacation, so I’m still catching up with old press and I have missing pieces that need researching. Here are some bits that tell you about possible ties between Microsoft and Acacia. Microsoft, unsurprisingly, denies all of this.

From Sam Hiser:

=> ↺ Sam Hiser

PJ & Company astutely make the connection that behind “IP Innovation LLC” is a group called Acacia which is staffed by senior Microsoft agents, including Jonathan Taub, a Microsoft Hero & Key Achiever.

From ZDNet:

=> ↺ ZDNet

Pamela Jones of Groklaw detects the fine hand of Microsoft at work here. Two former Microsoft executives, Jonathan Taub and Brad Brunell, joined Acacia in the last several months.

Matt Asay connects some dots.

=> ↺ connects some dots

Thinking more about all those darned coincidences in the IP Innovation lawsuit launched against Red Hat and Novell recently over the Linux desktop, I decided to list them out:

Newsfactor summarises.

=> ↺ summarises

Then, it quotes other research that Illinois-based IP Innovation is a subsidiary of California-based Acacia Technologies Group, which, in July, announced that Jonathan Traub, former Microsoft Director of Strategic Alliances for Mobile and Embedded Devices, was joining the company as a vice president.
Earlier this month, Acacia said that Brad Brunell was coming aboard as senior vice preisdent. Brunell is the former manager of intellectual property licensing at Microsoft. In fairness, Groklaw did note that Acacia, which is in the business of licensing and lawsuits, also has sued Microsoft.

We can probably judge for ourselves, but let’s keep an eye for more evidence and see how everything develops. The shifts in staff are reminiscent of the XenSource hijack (former Microsoft employees inherited prominent roles just before the acquisition, making it akin to a puppet state tactic).

=> ↺ XenSource hijack | ↺ akin to | ↺ puppet state tactic

Share in other sites/networks: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

Permalink  Send this to a friend

=> Permalink | ↺ Send this to a friend


=> Techrights

➮ Sharing is caring. Content is available under CC-BY-SA.

Proxy Information
Original URL
gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2007/10/15/acacia-comparison-sco-connection
Status Code
Success (20)
Meta
text/gemini;lang=en-GB
Capsule Response Time
283.533578 milliseconds
Gemini-to-HTML Time
1.397667 milliseconds

This content has been proxied by September (ba2dc).