Red Hat Hit With Patent Suit Over JBoss 201
An anonymous reader writes "A small software company is claiming that Red Hat's JBoss open source middleware violates one of its patents and is asking a court to stop Red Hat from distributing the product. Software Tree LLC claims that JBoss infringes on its database patent for 'exchanging data and commands between an object oriented system and a relational system.' Software Tree's partners include Microsoft, and that the suit was filed in Eastern Texas, which is known as a plaintiff's paradise for patent actions."
Untied States Patent (Score:4, Funny)
Untied States Patent #078957284370958240976548037689725, Method and Apparatus for Initiating a Loud Communication Between a Liberal and a Conservative:
The Liberal says, "The government should pay for it!" The Conservative says, "Throw grandma down the stairs and out into the street!" A loud communication thus begins between the two.
I am going to sue every liberal and conservative in the country and seek an injunction to prevent them from talking to each other unless they pay me royalties.
LOL marketing speak (Score:5, Funny)
According to its Web site, Software Tree specializes in "providing superior software infrastructure that shifts the application/database integration paradigm."
Well if nothing else they've definitely got the marketing speak down.
Re:LOL marketing speak (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wasn't Bilski supposed to have stopped these??? (Score:4, Funny)
No, that was simply the fevered hope of many open source criminals who seek to profit off the hard work and innovation of others.
Re:Yay for selective quoting! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:LOL marketing speak (Score:2, Funny)
It's from that "Office Space" movie, where Marty had to go back in time and use the Schwartz to prevent President Lincoln from being assassinated by Lee Harvey Wallbanger.
Cheers!
Re:Civil Procedure Question (Score:5, Funny)
They can, because RedHat is selling/offering their software in that state.
Note to self: When I start selling my software, refuse to sell it in Texas.
Re:Fishy (Score:1, Funny)
What you say is perfectly true, I really liked object store when I was using it. To bad it does not seem to have gone very far!
RAH RAH RAH for object store
Re:Civil Procedure Question (Score:1, Funny)