Red Hat: Patent 'Promise', Proprietary 'Gifts', Imminent Results, Fedora 27 Delays
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Red Hat pledges patent protection for 99 per cent of FOSS-ware [Ed: And when Red Hat gets taken over (like Sun and Oracle) this promise will be worthless]
Red Hat says it has amassed over 2,000 patents and won't enforce them if the technologies they describe are used in properly-licensed open source software.
The company's made more or less the same offer since the year 2002, when it first made a “Patent Promise” in order to “to discourage patent aggression in free and open source software.” In 2002 the company didn't own many patents and claimed its non-enforcement promise covered per cent of open source software.
The Promise was revised in order to reflect the company's growing patent trove and to spruce up the language it uses to make it more relevant.
The revised promise “applies to all software meeting the free software or open source definitions of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) or the Open Source Initiative (OSI)”. That verbiage translates into any software licensed on terms the OSI approves on this list, or which meet the Initiative’s definition of open source offered here. Licenses listed by the Free Software Foundation as a free software license at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses also come under the Promise's purview, as do those here as of the date this edition of Our Promise is published.
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Red Hat Open Source Day rewards with proprietary hardware. For the fourth time
The above is an excerpt of the 2017 event announcement. Which, as you can see below, will be at least the fourth consecutive one in which Red Hat Italia will award participants with some of the most proprietary devices around. Please note the absence of anything like, e.g. Matchstick, “100% Linux compatible laptop, with Linux preinstalled”, or a Fairphone, in the screenshots...
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Red Hat (RHT) to Report Q2 Earnings: Will it Beat Estimates?
We expect Red Hat Inc. RHT to beat expectations when it reports fiscal second-quarter 2018 results on Sep 25.
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Needle Action Activity Spotted in Enbridge Inc (ENB) and Red Hat Inc (RHT)
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Fedora 27 Beta Hit By A Second Delay
Last week it was decided to delay the Fedora 27 beta due to bugs while this week they've been forced to delay the release a second time.
The first beta delay wasn't too bad as the F27 schedule already had a built-in "rain date", in acknowledging Fedora's frequent release delays. But today a second unplanned delay is pushing back F27 Beta by at least one more week. This will now also push back the Fedora 27 final release by at least one week.
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Fedora 27 Beta status is NO-GO
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News: The new Krita 3.3.0
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