Laurel Wamsley, NPR; IBM Will Acquire Open-Source Software Company Red Hat In $34 Billion Deal
"In what may be the most significant tech acquisition of the year, IBM
says it will acquire open-source software company Red Hat for
approximately $34 billion...
"The
acquisition of Red Hat is a game-changer. It changes everything about
the cloud market," Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, president and chief
executive officer said in a statement. "This is the next chapter of the cloud."
Raleigh,
N.C.–based Red Hat makes software for the open-source Linux operating
system, an alternative to proprietary software made by Microsoft. It
sells features and support on a subscription basis to its corporate
customers...
Microsoft completed its $7.5 billion acquisition of open source software company GitHub just two days ago."
Issues and developments related to IP, AI, and OM, examined in the IP and tech ethics graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology", coming in Summer 2025, includes major chapters on IP, AI, OM, and other emerging technologies (IoT, drones, robots, autonomous vehicles, VR/AR). Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Monday, August 24, 2009
Ownership of Unix Copyright Headed to Trial; New York Times, 8/24/09
Associated Press via New York Times; Ownership of Unix Copyright Headed to Trial:
"A federal appeals court on Monday reversed a judge's decision that grant the copyright of the Unix computer operating system to Novell Inc.
A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a judge erred in August 2007 by granting the copyright to Novell. The panel ordered a trial to determine ownership.
Novell, a software and computer infrastructure company, has been locked in a yearslong legal battle with The SCO Group Inc. of Lindon, Utah, over ownership to the copyright."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/24/business/AP-CO-SCO-Group-Novell.html?_r=1
"A federal appeals court on Monday reversed a judge's decision that grant the copyright of the Unix computer operating system to Novell Inc.
A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a judge erred in August 2007 by granting the copyright to Novell. The panel ordered a trial to determine ownership.
Novell, a software and computer infrastructure company, has been locked in a yearslong legal battle with The SCO Group Inc. of Lindon, Utah, over ownership to the copyright."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/24/business/AP-CO-SCO-Group-Novell.html?_r=1
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