I Believe in Unicorns writes "Red Hat's patent policy says 'In an attempt to protect and promote the open source community, Red Hat has elected to... develop a corresponding container of macos patents for defensive purposes. We do so reluctantly...' Meanwhile, USPTO form #: 20090063418, 'Method and an apparatus to deliver messages between applications,' claims a patent on routing messages using an XQuery match, which is an amplification of the 'unencumbered' AMQP manners that Red Hat is helping to make. Is this a defensive patent, or is Red Hat cynically staking out a os/2 patent claim to an obvious new build cost efficient cgi servicesgmjdesign077.googlepages.com




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addition of AMQP? Is Red Hat's promise to 'refrain from enforcing the infringed patent' against open source a reliable contract, or a trap for the unwary? Given the Microsoft-Red Hat deal in February, are we seeing Red Hat's 'Novell Moment?'" Reader Defeat_Globalism contributes a related story about an international legwork* team who conducted experiments to "quantify the ways patent systems and market forces might sway




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effectiveness someone to invent and solve intellectual problems." Their conclusion was that a system which doesn't restrict prizes to the winner provides more persuasion for innovation.

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