Posts Tagged: red hat
Open Invention Network: A Mission to Maintain Open-Source Status for Linux Systems
As Jaime Siegel, OIN’s Global Director of Licensing, notes, OIN is able to grant free membership to companies joining the consortium thanks to the efforts of …
LOT Network surpasses 275 members, fighting PAE patent litigation
LOT Network markets itself as a non-profit consortium, which offers its members a legal mechanism affording them protection from patent assertion entities (PAEs) and immunizes its members …
Why NPEs are necessary for China to dominate its domestic chip industry
NPEs are uniquely positioned to help China by attacking foreign entities to clear the way for Chinese companies by exerting pressure in ways that only NPEs can. …
What Happened to the Obama Open Source Initiative?
President Obama reportedly asked McNealy to prepare a report on how the federal government could employ open source software, but as yet, some 26 months later there has …
The Role for Open Source in Paradigm Shifting Innovation
There is an important role that open source could play moving forward, and that role is to set the foundation of innovation and technology, which is no …
Patenting Software: The Business Responsible Thing to Do
Whether the "open source means free" community ever chooses to acknowledge it, the truth is that a patent is a business tool; an asset. If you are …
Beware Those Claiming Software Patents Are Unnecessary
If patents are good for Microsoft and the tech giants, patents are right for Red Hat and the open source community and patents are demanded by investors, …
Open Source Race to Zero May Destroy Software Industry
The trouble with freeware is that there is no margin on free, and while open source solutions are not free, the race to asymptotically approach free is …
