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Microsoft and Red Hat Team Up On Virtualization 168

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the don't-go-the-way-of-the-novell-bird dept.
mjasay writes "For years Microsoft has insisted that open-source vendors acknowledge its patent portfolio as a precursor to interoperability discussions. Today, Microsoft shed that charade and announced an interoperability alliance with Red Hat for virtualization. The nuts-and-bolts of the agreement are somewhat pedantic, providing for Red Hat to validate Windows Server guests to be supported on Red Hat Enterprise virtualization technologies, and other technical support details. But the real crux of the agreement is what isn't there: patents. Red Hat has long held that open standards and open APIs are the key to interoperability, even as Microsoft insisted patents play a critical role in working together, and got Novell to buy in. Today, Red Hat's vision seems to have won out with an interoperability deal heavy on technical integration and light on lawyers."

Comment Re:I know the solution (Score 1) 356

by wtansill (#26419415) Attached to: Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing?

WRT to item C on your list: birth control pills. It would be a completely different world without that medical wonder. Suddenly having hundreds of millions more fertile women in this world would cause lots o' problems.

This is Slashdot. No one here has any reason to worry about impregnating fertile women.
The Courts

Submission + - Rambus barred from using 12 patents in Micron suit (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by wtansill
wtansill writes: Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) — Rambus Inc., a designer of high-speed memory chips, can't use 12 of its patents to demand royalties from Micron Technology Inc., a federal judge in Delaware ruled. Rambus plunged as much as 45 percent. U.S. District Judge Sue L. Robinson in Wilmington said today the patents are unenforceable because Rambus destroyed documents in the infringement lawsuit. She called Rambus's litigation conduct "obstructive at best, misleading at worst." "The very integrity of the litigation process has been impugned," Robinson said in the opinion.

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