“Oh, well allow me to retort.”
Red Hat VP and Assistant General Counsel, wrote a very patient and informative blog entry that made it to the Fedora Planet yesterday. He wrote about Red Hat’s patent policy in response to some stories in the “press” spreading FUD about some AMQP-related patents, and (non sequitur alert) the recent virtualization agreement with Microsoft. I keep asking myself, do people really think Red Hat is on the constant verge of turning to the Dark Side? What does a company have to do to get some credit?
After all, Red Hat spends literally millions of dollars on the 100% free and open Fedora Project, a global partnership of thousands of volunteers, designers, developers, and engineers who are building the best of the next generation of Linux technologies. And that’s just counting bandwidth and other support. In addition, engineers in Red Hat spend countless hours developing new features, and much of this goes directly into Fedora on a daily (or hourly) basis. And yes, that’s a lot of man-hours — many hundreds of people, multiplied by the insane number of hours that employees tend to put in, means giga-oodles of free software goodness for the whole world. And any patents Red Hat holds on software as a result fall under its Patent Promise, which is a binding pledge to only use those patents to defend the free software community.
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