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Posted in Microsoft, Patents, Red Hat at 12:53 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Shame on Red Hat, the so-called ‘open’ organisation, for acting very foolish
Summary: OpenShift deviates to patents-laden APIs of a patent aggressor, Microsoft, and Red Hat signs a patent deal with Microsoft
THERE is some disturbing news coming out of Red Hat this afternoon, only a day after announcing the release of Fedora 23.
Half a decade ago we complained about Red Hat’s dubious affair with software patents. The company isn’t serious about fighting them anymore. We have already covered it in articles such as:
Novell, Red Hat, and Software Patents: Strike IIRed Hat Fights Fire with FirePatents Roundup: Red Hat, Former USPTO Commissioner on Patent Demise, and WIPO NotesPatents Roundup: Red Hat Again; EPO and USPTO DebatedThe Other Side of Red Hat: Pieter Hintjens on AMQP and PatentsHow Red Hat Dodged a Novell-Like Microsoft Deal Despite Lobbying for Software PatentsRed Hat, Microsoft, EU Lobbyists, and Software PatentsA Glimpse Back at Red Hat’s and Novell’s Stance on Software Patents in 2005Red Hat and Software Patents (Video)Patents Roundup: Identifying Real Patent Foes and Conflicts of InterestsRed Hat Should Eliminate All of Its Patents, or At Least Attach Self-Destructive Clauses to Them
“Half a decade ago we complained about Red Hat’s dubious affair with software patents.”Things are getting worse and today, based on Sean Kerner, there is a patent deal signed between Microsoft and Red Hat (the companies try hard to hide this, even the self-acclaimed ‘open’ organisation prefers not to talk about it). Why was this done? Maybe because at Red Hat money now matters more than freedom and ethics? Here is how they try to spin it: “Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) and Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) on Wednesday announced a partnership that will help customers embrace hybrid cloud computing by providing greater choice and flexibility deploying Red Hat solutions on Microsoft Azure. As a key component of today’s announcement, Microsoft is offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure. In addition, Microsoft and Red Hat are also working together to address common enterprise, ISV and developer needs for building, deploying and managing applications on Red Hat software across private and public clouds.” OpenShift is even helping .NET, which is a patent trap. But don’t worry, one might say, there is now a patent deal. Now you can use RHEL while you’re being spied on by the PRISM industry leader (first company in PRISM) and enjoy patent “peace of mind”, to use the ludicrous language previously used by Novell.
=> ↺ how they try to spin it | ↺ OpenShift is even helping .NET | ↺ first company in PRISM
Sean Kerner covered this pretty fast and he is already quite vocal about it. In Twitter he said that the “patent part is … strange & very surprising IMHO [...] Here’s my original story from 2007 http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3677506/Microsoft+Open+Source+Infringes+on+235+Patents.htm … /2015/10/21/red-hat-and-black-duck/ Red Hat liaised with somewhat of a Microsoft satellite
=> it paid Microsoft patent trolls (secretly, again)
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