We represent developers of free and opensource
software. If Microsoft or anyone else attempts to sue our clients for doing what
they do to create software, because they??™re being paid for it, then the people doing that
will be sorry. We protect our clients.
http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6132156.html
A few days after Microsoft??™s Steve Ballmer suggested that companies would want Red
Hat and others to begin paying for use of their patents, a company called IP Innovation
LLC filed a patent claim against Red Hat and Novell. IP Innovation is a subsidiary of Acacia, which
recently added Jonathan Taub and Brad Brunell as Vice Presidents. Taub and Brunell were highly regarded
executives at Microsoft, with the latter serving as a General Manager of Intellectual Property Licensing.
Check out the story here: www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071011205044141.
The SCO Lawsuits
The Linux lawsuits that got the most press a few years ago are the ones involving Santa Cruz
Operation (SCO). SCO is the current owner of the UNIX source code that passed from AT&T Bell
Labs to UNIX System Laboratories to Univel (a lot of people don??™t know that one), to Novell, and
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eventually to the company formed by joining SCO and Caldera Systems.
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