Because people asked…
Q: will you be doing a Q&A on the Red Hat and Novell patents suits?
A: Are you crazy? :) I’ve worked for both companies and managed a team that may well have written or implemented the code at issue. I’m not touching that in public with a ten foot pole. :)
Q: but! but!
A: Go read Mark Radcliffe’s summary. Better starting place than I’m going to give you. :)
Q: any notes you might want to add?
A: the complaint clearly involves not one but three patents; make sure you take your news with a grain of salt and remove your tinfoil hats before reading. :)
Q: seriously? that’s it?
A: I’m sure I’ll end up chatting with SFLC about the whole thing and may at some point have some comments for GNOME, or at least the board. Unfortunately, given the circumstances, I wouldn’t look to me for much more than that, at least until SFLC as my lawyers tell me I should ;)
Perhaps this suit is just a sinister plot by P.J. to keep Groklaw going now that SCO has been made judiciously irrelevant…
I guess my tags for “wanton speculation” were stripped off my prior post ;-)