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FSF Files Amicus Brief in Bilski - The Country Needs and Relies on FOSS
FSF has now filed an amicus brief in Bilski, and they too ask the Supreme Court "to affirm that software ideas are not patentable":End Software Patents (ESP) executive director Ciaran O'Riordan explained, "Every software patent is a restriction on software developers and users of computers, and there are currently 200,000 software patents in the USA.
Read more »Bilski II: Red Hat Appeals to Supreme Court over Software Non-Patentability
The U.S. is known for its patent friendliness. But a Supreme Court decision in 2008 overturned a patent application by Bernard L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw for a risk mitigation process. Now Red Hat is using the so-called Bilski case in support of software non-patentability.
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Amicus Avalanche Opposing Software Patents in the United States (Novell Still Missing)
Red Hat, the FSF, and the SFLC submit amicus briefs for the Bilski case
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Red Hat addresses Supreme Court on software patents
Red Hat has filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court. In the brief, Red Hat explains the practical problems of software patents to software developers.
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Red Hat Files its Bilski Brief: Asks Supreme Ct. to Exclude Software From Patentability
I have exciting news for you. Red Hat has just filed
its brief [PDF] in Bilski, and it's saying things you certainly have been hoping someone would express to the Supreme Court.
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Explaining Why We Don't Endorse Other Systems
"We're often asked why we don't endorse a particular system—usually a popular GNU/Linux distribution. The short answer to that question is that they don't follow the free system distribution guidelines. But since it isn't always easy to see how a particular system fails to follow the guidelines, we still get these questions.
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Red Hat to collide with Microsoft
For years, Red Hat has happily sold Linux to Unix shops anxious to save money at equivalent or better performance. During this time, the company largely avoided Microsoft, which has tended to compete much higher up the stack. No longer.
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Is Linux the New Threat?
When you look at the Redhat balance sheet and its latest results you have to say, wow, this company seems to have their business under control. But I wonder, if not something bigger is happening.
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Sharing is Better Than Not Sharing — New Video
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Red Hat: Microsoft Marketed Its Patents for Trolls to Attack Free Software
Red Hat reveals details about Microsoft's marketing of anti-FOSS patents; other patent news summarised
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More Anti-Red Hat Whitepapers from Novell, More Mono/.NET Convergence
More waste of paper from Novell (attempts to grab just existing GNU/Linux users) and increasing intersection with Microsoft in the form of Mono
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Red Hat accuses Microsoft of patent FUD
Linux vendor Red Hat sure doesn't seem to like Microsoft much. Red Hat is now alleging that Microsoft is not committed to the path of peace with open source software vendors.
Read more »Red Hat wants to standardise clouds
Red Hat's Deltacloud project is developing a open source standardised API for addressing different cloud architectures in a uniform way. Cloud service users can use the Deltacloud API to access Amazon's EC2 as well as private clouds that are based on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation (RHEL-V); drivers for private VMware ESX clouds and the cloud services offered by Rackspace are to follow.
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KVM is the feather in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
Red Hat has released RHEL 5.4, a major point update of its commercial Linux distribution. This version introduces support for KVM, a significant milestone in Red Hat's evolving virtualization strategy.
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