Post AdfeGhKBGm0jDbJaTI by richardfontana@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AdfHSv6zXKzIVZ0MUK by brauner@mastodon.social
       2024-01-09T09:07:17Z
       
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       I have a hard time understanding why Red Hat patented the concept behind the idmapped mount work I did? I mean just overall why even do this and also why hasn't anyone ever talked to us about this? I don't care about patents but this is really weird given that this patent is given to a single person but none of the actual people involved in this are even mentioned. Then again, I know nothing about patents. 🤷https://patents.justia.com/patent/11797357#linux #kernel
       
 (DIR) Post #AdfbJlDcwnYCIp1Cam by dazo@infosec.exchange
       2024-01-09T09:33:03Z
       
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       @brauner As an ex-Red Hatter, I would just recommend you to reach out to some of their legal teams and ask.My general experience working there many years is that they generally don't intend to harm anyone, but to preserve and ensure open source projects can continue to prosper without risking  threats by less nicer corporations willing to go to courts to get control of your stuff as cheap as possible.  Red Hat's mantra is to support open source projects first of all.  But patents and intellectual property stuff is confusing stuff for us not being in the legal business.Perhaps @richardfontana can help you get in touch with the right people inside Red Hat?
       
 (DIR) Post #AdfbJmNEeYpXsuWOCu by penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
       2024-01-09T12:55:51Z
       
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       @dazo @brauner @richardfontana (Also ex-RHer here) Patents normally don't come from the 'company' they normally come from an individual engineer; so it's probably they just didn't know about what you had done and none of the people who reviewed it did either. It's a big company, and lots of corners reinvent stuff other people did without realising history.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdfeGhKBGm0jDbJaTI by richardfontana@mastodon.social
       2024-01-09T13:28:55Z
       
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       @penguin42 @dazo @brauner Note: I am a Red Hat lawyer, I am also a US-qualified patent lawyer but I am not a Red Hat patent lawyer in the sense that I am not on the patent team and I am not involved in Red Hat's patent portfolio program