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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Member since:2005-11-11
RE[2]: reasonable former employment
Member since:2005-07-12
Member since:2005-10-02
Naah.. there are no such things as coincidences.
July: A former Microsoft boss is hired.
Beginning of October: A former Microsoft boss is hired.
Beginning of October: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, threatens to sue Red Hat over patents.
A week later in October. The company hiring two Microsoft bosses sues Red Hat over patents.
Oh well, it'll be fun to see the microserfs in here going in defense mode instantly. Including OSN-staff.
EDIT: Add to that the fact Microsoft sponsored SCO's suits against IBM, Red Hat and Novell. One can do whatever he wants to dismiss it as "coincidences" (though no such thing exists) - but there are an awful lot of these "coincidences" (again, coincidences do not exist - they are just a term for something that fits together too well and cannot be explained without having to accept an unpleasant truth).
Edited 2007-10-12 14:55 UTC
RE[3]: reasonable former employment
Member since:2005-06-29
Member since:2005-08-11
" Oh well, it'll be fun to see the microserfs in here going in defense mode instantly. Including OSN-staff. "
You may be right, but at this point, there is no evidence.
I worked at one university for 8 years doing tech support, now I work at another university doing tech support. Does that mean I am a spy? That I have taken secrets from my old employer and given them to my new one?
No it means I changed jobs. I need more evidence that what Groklaw is giving before I believe any of it.
Member since:2005-07-06
http://skepdic.com/posthoc.html
Member since:2007-09-17
dylansmrjones:
You seem to telling everything with so much confident as if you know exactly this happened. This is what I call guilty until proven innocent way of justice.
Sorry but I don't share your views. I don't believe that IP phone is suing Redhat because Microsoft funded it.
How do you even know that Microsoft's employee perceived this case and it was not one of the already working employees.
Edited 2007-10-12 16:56
Member since:2005-07-06
How could the government be involved? EVERYONE knows that the government is actually controlled by a sinister cabal consisting of the Illuminati, the Knights Templar, the Reptilians and the International House of Pancakes. First they fake a moon landing, and now this!!!
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2005-06-29
Not only that, but I would like to see the backgrounds on other employees at this Innovation thing too. I mean, what if one of them worked for the US gov.? Does that mean the government is involved??
Seriously now, Groklaw might very well be right - but the 'evidence' presented is extremely weak - at best.