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Red Hat settles patent suit

Red Hat on Tuesday said it has settled a patent infringement lawsuit that covers the company's open source software and any other derivative works. The lawsuit was launched by Firestar Software and DataTern in 2006. Firestar has a platform called EdgeNode that automates distributed processes such as supply chain...

Tags: Software, Red Hat Inc., Firestar, Open Source, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-11

IP company sues AMD over patents

IP company sues AMD over patentsDon't you love how AMD plays stupid?Umm, we haven;'t seen the suit so we can't say anything.Ummm, yes, they have been telling us for FOUR YEARS but our lawyers said to play stupid...If they made the allegation four years ago......they should have sued three years...

Tags: IP, patent, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., FireStar, Opti, Intel Corp., ACPI

Discussion threads 2006-11-17

Red Hat sued over JBoss technology

Red Hat sued over JBoss technologyThe only reason I see......for only going after Red Hat with this claim is that FireStar hoping for the case to get bungled in their favor. The sale of JBoss to Red at just completed, so there's opportunity of confusion from record transfers. ...

Tags: Development tools, Middleware, Red Hat Inc., FireStar, open source, JBoss

Discussion threads 2006-06-30

Additional Resources

xpesp2_via_machineinf_v290a_v50.zip 2006-10-12 (Windows)

Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.../XPesp2_VIA_MachineINF_V290A_V50/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:VIA K8 CPU to AGP Controller VIA Standard Host Bridge VIA I/O APIC Interrupt Controller VIA Security Device VIA PCI to PCI Bridge Controller VIA Standard PCI to ISA Bridge VIA1 Standard PCI...

Tags: Processor, I/O, ISA, AGP, Microsoft Windows, CPU, Intel Corp., EISA, Play, RCC, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-10-12

Original intent and open source patents

Original intent and open source patentsI'll be devil's advocateLooks like you wre a conservative about the same time I was a liberal...UNIX-heads may recall a utility named "compress" which employed the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm to compress files. Turns out that the algorothm was patented patent was held by Unisys. ...

Tags: patent, open source

Discussion threads 2006-07-11

Original intent and open source patents

Back when I was a conservative, in the 1970s, one of the big buzzwords was the idea of "original intent." (The illustration comes from a church lecture series.) That was, instead of reading the Constitution in light of present day circumstances, judges should look at the "original intent" of the...

Tags: patent, original intent

Blog posts 2006-07-11

Legal wrangles and software remain on collision course

I predicted not too long ago that patents, copyrights, licenses and software were on a collision course that was going to be none too pretty. More evidence of this mess emerged in the past few weeks.First Red Hat was hit with an action by FireStar over the way object oriented...

Tags: Express Logic, Green Hills

Blog posts 2006-07-10

C7M_CN700_XPeSP2Image.zip 2005-11-25 (Windows)

This package supports the following driver models:Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Embedded Controller Microsoft System Management Bus Host Controller ALI 1535 SMBus Host Controller Microsoft Windows Management Interface for ACPI Microsoft Composite Battery Closed Caption Decoder OTI CD-ROM Drive CD-ROM Drive CD-ROM Drive force CDDA accurate CD-ROM Drive (force CDDA...

Tags: Processor, ISA, Logitech, AGP, Microsoft Windows, USB, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., IMAPI, EISA, Play, RCC, AcerView, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-11-25

xpe_via_machineinf_v230c_v60.zip 2002-10-02 (Windows)

Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.../XPE_VIA_MachineINF_V230C_v60/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:CONTAQ 82C596 CPU to PCI & PCI to ISA bridge [original model] National PT86C521 Pentiumr CPU to PCI bridge National PT86C523 PCI to ISA bridge National PCI System I/O Intelr 82802 Firmware Hub...

Tags: Processor, ISA, AGP, Microsoft Windows, CPU, Intel Corp., EISA, Play, RCC, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2002-10-02

xpesp2_via_machineinf_v260a_v30.zip 2002-10-02 (Windows)

Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.../XPesp2_VIA_MachineINF_V260A_V30/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:CONTAQ 82C596 CPU to PCI & PCI to ISA bridge [original model] National PT86C521 Pentiumr CPU to PCI bridge National PT86C523 PCI to ISA bridge National PCI System I/O IntelR 82802 Firmware Hub...

Tags: Processor, I/O, ISA, AGP, Microsoft Windows, Intel Corp., EISA, Play, RCC, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2002-10-02

xpe_via_machineinf_v200a_v50.zip 2001-08-16 (Windows)

Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.../extract/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:VIA Standard Host Bridge VIA CPU to AGP Controller VIA PCI to PCI Bridge Controller VIA I/O APIC Interrupt Controller VIA Standard PCI to ISA Bridge CONTAQ 82C596 CPU to PCI & PCI...

Tags: Processor, ISA, AGP, Microsoft Windows, CPU, Intel Corp., EISA, Play, RCC, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2001-08-16

gart_he.exe 5.0.2195.2104 (Windows)

This package supports the following driver models:CONTAQ 82C596 CPU to PCI & PCI to ISA bridge [original model] National PT86C521 Pentiumr CPU to PCI bridge National PT86C523 PCI to ISA bridge National PCI System I/O Intelr 82802 Firmware Hub Device Intel Extended Express System Support Controller Intel 82375EB/SB PCI to...

Tags: Processor, ISA, Microsoft Windows, CPU, Intel Corp., EISA, Play, RCC, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2000-04-27