Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Oct 2007 14:16 UTC, submitted by walterbyrd
Groklaw reports that a company called IP Innovation, LLC, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Novell and Red Hat. Groklaw goes into black helicopter mode, trying to find a tie between this IP Innovation thing and Microsoft - and it finds it too. A few ex-Microsoft employees now work at IP Innovation. Do with it as you please.
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Even so, Red Hat could turn around and sue Microsoft anyway, so it still wouldn't make sense for Microsoft to use a proxy to do its dirty work. As soon as one entity starts suing another over patents, everyone will join in the fray. Software patents are an exercise in bluff and bluster - everyone in the know realises that they are ultimately worthless, but those who don't understand will be intimidated and will pay licensing fees on the basis of very questionable patents.
IP vultures exist on the basis that everyone settles out of court or pays licensing fees. The last thing they should want is for any of their patents to be tested in court, and any company that takes their claim to court and loses will open a Pandora's Box that will result in the end of software patents as we know them.