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November 4, 2006 Faced with new competitive challenges, Linux seller Red Hat has begun promising protection against intellectual-property lawsuits. TAGS: indemnification, Red Hat Inc., intellectual property, Linux seller, Linux, Novell Inc., SCO Group Inc., Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, open-source software, open source, Unix, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.

May 14, 2007 Company's more threatening stance spotlights its effort to pressure open-source firms to license its patents. TAGS: intellectual property, patent, open source, open-source software, open-source company, Novell Inc., Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, software company

April 6, 2005 Sun Microsystems President Jonathan Schwartz applauds the open-source software realm but takes jabs at the GPL. TAGS: Jonathan Schwartz, GPL, Sun Microsystems Inc., open-source software, obligation, open source, Sun Solaris, intellectual property, source code, Java, project, nation, Red Hat Inc., president, Linux, IBM Corp.

May 14, 2007 Top Microsoft lawyer alleges in a magazine interview that the Linux kernel and OpenOffice.org violate hundreds of the company's patents. TAGS: patent, open source, open-source software, Linux kernel, Linux, OpenOffice.org, Steve Ballmer, Novell Inc., intellectual property, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp., lawyer, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., article

November 18, 2004 Plans to provide umbrella from patent-infringement suits to outsiders using or developing the OS--a move to counter Linux. Sun posts early Java 6 code Photos: Sun execs talk tech TAGS: Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., intellectual property, SCO Group Inc., Scott McNealy, patent infringement, Jonathan Schwartz, Linux, open source, patent, Unix, IBM Corp., protection, open-source software, Red Hat Inc., Java

August 11, 2005 Red Hat and OSDL's new patent efforts take a different tack in trying to deter some intellectual-property attacks. TAGS: patent, Steve Mills, software patent, open source, intellectual property, Open Source Development Labs, LinuxWorld, ally, Red Hat Inc., IBM Corp., Sun Solaris, open-source software, Linux, threat, San Francisco, programming

August 22, 2005 Struggle over who steers development of the content management software underlines the promise and the pitfalls of collaborative work. TAGS: Mambo, Miro, foundation, pitfall, content management system, open-source software, development, open source, GPL, developer, Red Hat Inc., intellectual property, direction, project

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