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April 5, 2006 Company has other ideas for open-source patent protections and governance of its hobbyist Linux product. TAGS: Fedora Project, Red Hat Inc., foundation, Fedora Core, intellectual property, open source, Linux

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, Larry Ellison, SCO Group Inc., Oracle Corp., Linux, Novell Inc., open source, open-source software, Unix, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.

December 12, 2006 Survey commissioned by the two companies asserts that their high-profile agreement will drive customers away from joint rival Red Hat. TAGS: survey, Novell Inc., respondent, intellectual property right, intellectual property, agreement, Red Hat Inc., Linux, Microsoft Corp.

September 20, 2004 Forrester CEO George Colony argues that if Sun goes down, it's going to go down taking very big swings. TAGS: Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, pricing, intellectual property, Linux, vendor, Intel x86, platform, IBM Corp., operating system, cell phone, 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

November 3, 2006 By declaring a "patent peace" with Novell Linux, did the software company just declare patent war with the open-source realm? TAGS: patent, intellectual property, Novell Inc., open source, open-source programmer, Red Hat Inc., Steve Ballmer, license agreement, Linux, GPL, software company, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

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, patent infringement, SCO Group Inc., Scott McNealy, Linux, open source, Jonathan Schwartz, patent, Unix, IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc., protection, open-source software, 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, Red Hat Inc., ally, LinuxWorld, IBM Corp., open-source software, Sun Solaris, threat, Linux, San Francisco, programming

August 11, 2005 Red Hat says it will fund programmers' efforts to defang the threat presented by software patents. Also: Database start-ups bet on open source. Photos: Execs tout penguin TAGS: open source, Red Hat Inc., Linux, Oracle Corp., support services, workplace, Apache Software Foundation, intellectual property, exec, Novell Inc., IBM Corp., Unix, database, start-up, Firefox, server

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, OpenOffice.org, Linux, Linux kernel, Steve Ballmer, Novell Inc., intellectual property, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., lawyer, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., article

November 21, 2006 update Novell CEO issues open letter saying deal is not an admission that the open-source OS infringes on Microsoft's patents.New GPL clause to flip Microsoft-Novell agreement on its head? TAGS: Novell Inc., patent, Linux, agreement, Linux company, intellectual property, SuSE Linux, Steve Ballmer, letter, SuSE, Red Hat Inc., open source, Microsoft Corp., CEO, IBM Corp.

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, Java, source code, nation, project, Red Hat Inc., president, Linux, IBM Corp.

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, developer, GPL, intellectual property, Red Hat Inc., direction, project

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