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Posted in IBM, Patents, Red Hat at 9:57 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video download link | md5sum 77142030821a25ea75f02d1a500590a8IBM Patent Bully Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/ibm-patent-shakedown.webm
Summary: Big Blue Bully (BBB) or the international blackmail machine is still lobbying for software patents and is still weaponising software patents, even in courts; what does that mean for a company like Red Hat, which kept assuring us that there’s no need to worry about its patents?
OVER the years we’ve repeatedly challenged Red Hat to justify its poor stance on software patents, seeing that it was amassing some of its own (there’s the old theory about Red Hat stockpiling patents to increase the sale price).
> “Back in 2005 Red Hat had a different stance…”
We’ve written several dozens of articles on this subject* for almost 15 years, occasionally noting that Red Hat was starting to pursue many software patents, including on systemd. Back in 2005 Red Hat had a different stance; it fought against European software patents, which were controversially being granted by the EPO. The problem never ended; the issue never stopped being an issue and instead we saw IBM actively lobbying Europe to allow software patents, at one point even falsely claiming that “Open Source” innovation had been made possible owing to software patents — clearly an eyebrow-raising lie.
> “Heck, do not expect what’s left of the media to provide commentary on the matter…”
The video above deals with the latest example of IBM bullying companies with the help of software patents. The lawsuit was filed 7 days ago, but we don’t expect anyone from Red Hat to speak about this. Heck, do not expect what’s left of the media to provide commentary on the matter; I casually show examples of IBM manipulating the media and in the video I share a new example of this with IBM’s longtime paid shill, Timothy Prickett Morgan. We’re meant to think that patent shakedown is OK, even when Red Hat’s patents can be at stake and we’re talking about nonsensical patents, likely rendered void by Alice/35 U.S.C. § 101 (SCOTUS). IBM is — quite frankly as usual — trying to compensate for the lack of merit/quality using quantity. Red Hat contributes to this quantity. █ _____* To give just a small sample of such coverage:
Red Hat is Chastised For Playing Along With Microsoft’s Patent Scheme Rather Than Challenge the Patents Like Google and the Alice Case DidMicrosoft and IBM Are the Patent Trolls, They Won’t Protect Us From TrollsRed Hat’s Freedom Reduced to Just Online Partner Enablement Network (OPEN) and Microsoft as a Close Partner; Canonical’s Ubuntu Just an ‘App’ for Windows?Red Hat and Software Patents (Video)Hey, Where’s Red Hat (IBM)?Under IBM Management, Red Hat Has No Will to SurviveMore Information Emerges About the Microsoft-Red Hat Patent AgreementIBM Has Not Been Good to Red Hat (the Company Should Never Have Been Sold)IBM is Imposing Non-Free, Privacy-Infringing Tools and Patent Tolls on Red Hat StaffRed Hat is Not the Company You Once KnewIBM is Destroying Red Hat and Red Hatters Are LeavingRed Hat Betrayed the Free Software Community With Its Software Patents’ Stockpiling Drive and Then a Sale to the Biggest Software Patents Lobbyist
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