AppArmor about to be merged into the kernel?

Marcel Rieux m.z.rieux at gmail.com
Sun Apr 4 00:12:02 UTC 2010


Gee, I almost missed this one!

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Thomas Cameron <
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:

>
> > I must confess that I'm not very strong on opinions; I'm better on facts.
>
> Then you should probably try finding some.  The drivel below is complete
> fantasy.
>
> > 2006. Microsoft sends a letter to Red Hat pretending that the Linux
> > kernel infringes 235 of their patents and that they'll have to pay
> > royalties.
>
> Wrong.
>
> > Red Hat answers: "Yeah, no problem! Send the patent list."
> > Somehow, it seems that Microsoft lost the list. Red Hat, who was eager
> > to pay, never received it.
>
> So wrong as to be laughable.  Red Hat has maintained all along that
> there is nothing to pay, that Microsoft has never actually provided
> evidence of any infringement.  Red Hat made crystal clear that it did
> not enter into any patent agreement with Microsoft when it did the
> cross-certification work last year around running Windows as a guest on
> on RHEL and running RHEL as a guest on Windows.
>
> See Q5 at http://www.redhat.com/promo/svvp/
>
> (...)
>


> Seriously - next time you pump this crap onto the list, please check
> your facts.
>
> So, Thomas Cameron thinks I really meant Red Hat was waiting for
Microsoft's patent infringement list with a check book in hand?
Interesting...

Red Hat is no place for Olympia Academy style pranksters, just for brain
dead serious people, right?

Google, you better beware!

Thanks for the insight!
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