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Red Hat?s Secret Patent Deal and the Fate of JBoss Developers
Nov 12, 2010, 20 :35 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (926 reads)
(Other stories by Bruce Perens)

"When patent troll Acacia sued Red Hat in 2007, it ended with a bang: Acacia?s patents were invalidated by the court, and all software developers, open-source or not, had one less legal risk to cope with. So, why is the outcome of Red Hat?s next tangle with Acacia being kept secret, and how is a Texas court helping to keep it that way? Could the outcome have placed Red Hat in violation of the open-source licenses on its own product?

"The suit in question ? Software Tree LLC v. Red Hat, Inc. ? claimed that JBoss, the well-known Java web software, infringed upon U.S. Patent No. 6163776 (PDF), which essentially claims invention of the object-relational database paradigm. In that paradigm, an object in an object-oriented software language represents a database record, and the attributes of the object represent fields in the database, making it possible for programmers to access a database without writing any SQL. It?s a common element in most web programming environments today."

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"The success of the Apple iPad has prompted other manufacturers to launch their own tablet devices, mainly based on the Android platform. But can Android have the same impact as it has done in the smartphone market? As well as putting together an excellent insight into the Android Tablet scene with his recent feature ?iPad Killers??, and weighing up features of the Samsung Galaxy Tab versus the iPad, Phil King also talked briefly to Tommy Forslund, producer at Swedish mobile developer Polarbit, to see what front-line developers make of the transition?

"Will Android tablets be able to mount a serious challenge to the iPad?

"They stand a good chance to. Android has shown itself able to compete with Apple in the smartphone sector, and I see no reason why the same shouldn?t be true for tablets. Apple has an advantage in their nicely integrated media services, like iBookstore and iTunes. Android will be getting their music store soon though, and there?s nothing to stop first-generation Android tablet users from installing Spotify and Kindle for Android and get music and eBooks through those services."

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