OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21086/Red_Hat_s_JBoss_Software_Draws_Patent_Suit Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:41:53 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com tisk tisk http://osnews.com/thread?351896 http://osnews.com/thread?351896 Software Tree has had custome decline at a rapid rate for teh last 6 years, their software is absolute garbage as well, with rather infrequent updates. They don't have the money to take this to court and drag it out, all Red Hat has to do is say "bring it on" and they will back down. As it is this is a fairly generig patent that a few software compnaies i can think of also infringe opon. the only reason to go after red hat directly is because the bigger companies that also possibly infringe, (oracle comes to mind), have a boat load of money and lawyers on retainer... Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (poundsmack) Comments RE: tisk tisk http://osnews.com/thread?351932 http://osnews.com/thread?351932
Software Tree has had custome decline at a rapid rate for teh last 6 years, their software is absolute garbage as well, with rather infrequent updates. They don't have the money to take this to court and drag it out, all Red Hat has to do is say "bring it on" and they will back down. As it is this is a fairly generig patent that a few software compnaies i can think of also infringe opon. the only reason to go after red hat directly is because the bigger companies that also possibly infringe, (oracle comes to mind), have a boat load of money and lawyers on retainer...



Well, so long as there are jurisdictions like Eastern, Texas around, this will continue to be a viable business model for companies that can't otherwise compete. Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bannor99) Comments RE: tisk tisk http://osnews.com/thread?351941 http://osnews.com/thread?351941
They don't have the money to take this to court and drag it out, all Red Hat has to do is say "bring it on" and they will back down.


Problem is, they don't need money. Law firms in the US will take on cases for a contingency fee; as long as they have lawyers that think they'll achieve some sort of payout that they can take a big chunk of, they don't need much money to fund this.

They also have a similar case already in play with Oracle, who has much bigger guns than Red Hat does. Didn't stop them.

Lawyers suck. Without them, I suspect that the legal system would be more just.

At least, until I need one. ;) Edited 2009-03-06 06:15 UTC Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (elsewhere) Comments RE[2]: tisk tisk http://osnews.com/thread?351976 http://osnews.com/thread?351976 Let's check Groklaw, quick! I bet they already found a link between Software Tree and Microsoft. Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rjamorim) Comments RE[3]: tisk tisk http://osnews.com/thread?352008 http://osnews.com/thread?352008 You don't need to, it was in the article.

"Software Tree's partners include Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), IBM, Borland, and Sun, while customers range from Concert Communications to the Los Alamos National Lab and News Corporation's Kesmai unit." Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (broken_symlink) Comments