Reminder of danger from Patents

[David C. Chipman]

	Hi All, 

		Could this be another TSCOG? I wonder...

			-David ("EnragedBeaver", on Groklaw.net) Chipman

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:08:57 -0500
Brian Millett <bmillett at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 16:37 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> > ''Red Hat Faces Patent Infringement Suit
> > 
> > Software company FireStar has filed suit against open source seller
> > Red 
> > Hat, alleging patent infringement.  The suit, filed in the Eastern 
> > District of Texas, asserts infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,101,502 
> > that is directed to a method of interfacing an object oriented
> > software 
> > application with a relational database.
> > 
> > ...''
> > 
> > http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2006/06/red_hat_faces_p.html
> > 
> > Let's hope that goes nowhere, but it serves as a reminder that the 
> > danger from a patent attack is real.
> 
> Yep, from http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6101502.html
> 
> "A mapping between an object model and a relational database is
> generated to facilitate access to the relational database. The object
> model can be created from database schema or database schema can be
> created from the object model. Further, the mapping can be automatically
> generated. The Database schema, object model and mapping are employed to
> provide interface objects that are utilized by a runtime engine to
> facilitate access to the relational database by object oriented software
> applications."
> 
> Now tell me, who has not done this at least 100 times for some project?
> Give me a break!
> 
> FYI, from their (Firestar) site: "Under terms of the agreement FireStar
> Software and Microsoft and will be participating in joint marketing and
> sales activities targeting insurance companies faced with issues of
> rapidly developing applications compliant with industry standards"
> 
> Ok, now I see where it is coming from.
> 
> -- 
> Brian Millett - [ Dr. Kyle (re: Vorlon Ambassador Kosh), "The
> Gathering"]
> "Even for an alien, this one is pretty alien."
> 
> 
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