Push Poll asking some odd questions about Red Hat

Karsten Wade kwade at redhat.com
Wed Oct 24 20:50:39 UTC 2007


OT

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 14:54 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> 
> > Has Red Hat commissioned a poll from Penn, Schoen & Berland Ass. Inc.?:
> >
> > http://www.mit.edu/~mherdeg/pushpoll/
> >
> > If not, then who is it that's paying for this Red Hat marketing data,
> > and why is it implying there's about to be a patent cross-licensing
> > agreement between Red Hat and Microsoft?
> >
> > Is there?
> 
> Are you kidding me?
> 
> Who would benefit more from a push poll implying that Red Hat violates 
> Microsoft patents -- Red Hat or Microsoft?
> 
> IANAL, and I can't speak for the company from a legal perspective -- but 
> come on.  This one is common sense.
> 
> --g
> 
> -- 
> Greg DeKoenigsberg
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> Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255
> "To whomsoever much hath been given...
> ...from him much shall be asked"
> 
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