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Red Hat "defensive" patent has chilling effect

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 1 comment
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Red Hat's application for a patent for an approach to routing messages over a middleware bus has disturbed some who are wondering why Red Hat didn't simply publish. If, as Red Hat claim, this is simply a defensive patent they could instead have published the proposal to establish prior art.

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theboomboomcars ·
Why is all of the news coming out about it now? Isn't RedHat a member of OIN, with many patents already part of the program?

I don't understand why there is a new round of the sky is falling going on, on old news.

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