[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“Red Hat Inc., the leading Linux distribution company, is facing
a patent infringement from FireStar Software Inc., an
object-transaction and business process integration company.“FireStar is asserting in its suit that JBoss’s Hibernate 3.0
infringes its 2000 U.S. Patent No. 6,101,502. This patent details a
method of interfacing an object oriented software application with
a relational database. Hibernate is a Java-based object/relational
persistence and query service and is part of the JEMS (JBoss
Enterprise Middleware System)…”