dspari1
April 1st, 2009, 08:22 AM
http://www.press.redhat.com/2009/03/30/comment-on-tomtom-microsoft-settlement/
Comment on TomTom-Microsoft Settlement
by Legal Team
Red Hat was not a party to this case. Even so, without a judicial decision, the settlement does not demonstrate that the claims of Microsoft were valid. Patent litigation is a difficult process, and there are many reasons besides the merits of the case that a defendant such as TomTom might have chosen to settle in the present economic environment. As the terms of the settlement license have not, to our knowledge, been made public, it is not possible to comment on their compliance with open source requirements and principles.
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This is the kind of thing that make me respect Redhat a lot.
Comment on TomTom-Microsoft Settlement
by Legal Team
Red Hat was not a party to this case. Even so, without a judicial decision, the settlement does not demonstrate that the claims of Microsoft were valid. Patent litigation is a difficult process, and there are many reasons besides the merits of the case that a defendant such as TomTom might have chosen to settle in the present economic environment. As the terms of the settlement license have not, to our knowledge, been made public, it is not possible to comment on their compliance with open source requirements and principles.
This entry was posted by Legal Team on Monday, March 30th, 2009 at 2:58 pm and is filed under IP. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
Comments are closed.
This is the kind of thing that make me respect Redhat a lot.