The Patent Infringement Suit: A Playbook | Linux Today

The Patent Infringement Suit: A Playbook

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 20, 2007

“Last week’s announcement of a patent infringement suit against
Red Hat and Novell set in motion speculation about motives,
theories, agendas, and behind-the-scenes players. If you’ve been
feeling like you need a scorecard to keep up, then you’re in
luck.

“Three of the players in this little drama need no introduction.
Red Hat and Novell distribute the two market-leading commercial
Linux distributions. You may also be familiar with a third company
involved–Microsoft…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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