Evul midgets wear red hats....

[LaBlueGirl]

It's supposed to be open source, and it was discovered via press release that Red Hat has applied for a patent:
http://kirkwylie.blogspot.com/2009/03/r ... lease.html

Those bastards!!! AMQP is a community project and a community endeavor. Our company, iMatix, has been fighting software patents here in Europe for 15 years now. We are one of the main Developers on the AMQP project (Red Hat is also).

Quoted from Wikipedia:

A notable design goal of AMQP was to enable the creation of open standard protocol stacks for business messaging both within and between firms by combining AMQP with one of the many open standards describing business transactions,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_M ... g_Protocol

People need to be aware of patent tyranny. Red Hat, AFAIK, was:

As the world’s leading open source solutions provider, Red Hat is committed to open standards that are
available free from any licensing, royalty payments, or other restrictions,

http://tinyurl.com/d66w6r

Recently we’ve seen some surprising comments about Red Hat’s stand on software patents and, in particular, about one of its patent applications related to the AMQP specification.

http://www.press.redhat.com/2009/03/17/ ... -lawsuits/

These 2 quotes are contradictory, no?

What can we do as a part of the global Internet community?
We can spread our knowledge. We can take action by voicing our opinion, better informing ourselves and letting Red Hat know that what they are trying to pull Just ain't cool

LaBlue

[LaBlueGirl]

The AMPQ patent describes a "method and an apparatus to deliver messages between applications" and specifically covers using XML in AMPQ. The reason that this patent has generated controversy is because it stakes out a critical use case of an open standard. Red Hat silently filed this patent application almost immediately after joining the AMPQ working group. It seems clear that the company did so with the intention of holding the keys to a critical part of the technology by the time the standard gained traction. This is viewed as an extremely hostile move by other members of the working group.

http://tinyurl.com/cxuv4t

[lilrofl]

ASSHATS!

I mean, I try to not be a judgmental person, but that's just wrong... outside of a money makes the world go round kinda way.

Wait, can I say, "asshat" in the forums...?

No matter, I expected better from Red Hat... guess they forgot were they came from.