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That was my initial understanding too, but I am not sure if TurboHercules, the for-profit company, is shielded as is openHercules, the open-source project. This
by alexandros 17y ago
That was my initial understanding too, but I am not sure if TurboHercules, the for-profit company, is shielded as is openHercules, the open-source project. This loophole may allow them to sue and keep their promise at the same time. Again, I am not quite clear if this is the case.
- hga 17y agoInteresting ... but how could IBM's promise mean anything if TurboHercules, which is an open-source company, isn't protected against assertion of all 500 of those patents. The loophole is a contractual issue between IBM, its customers, and perhaps TurboHercules (in that the latter is encouraging the customers to violate the contract). I don't see it having anything to do with open-source patent assertions and again I can't see how IBM's promise would be worth anything if the latter had its own loophole of a "If we sue you for other reason the 500 patents become fair game."