{"id":16736,"date":"2012-09-20T16:30:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16736"},"modified":"2012-09-20T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:34:07","slug":"is-personalweb-technologies-a-new-sco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/20\/is-personalweb-technologies-a-new-sco\/","title":{"rendered":"Is PersonalWeb Technologies a new SCO?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Linux Weekly News<\/a> reports that:<\/p>\n

Personalweb Technologies and Level 3 Communications have filed\u00a0a lawsuit [PDF]<\/a>\u00a0against Rackspace, alleging that Rackspace’s hosting of GitHub infringes upon\u00a0a long list<\/a>\u00a0of software patents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the comments lists a few possibly related law suits:<\/p>\n

PersonalWeb Technologies LLC et. al. v. Yahoo! Inc. filed yesterday in Texas Eastern Civil Action No. 6:12-cv-00658
\nPersonalWeb Technologies LLC et. al. v. Apple Inc. filed yesterday in Texas Eastern Civil Action No. 6:12-cv-00660
\nPersonalWeb Technologies LLC et. al. v. International Business Machines Corporation filed yesterday in Texas Eastern Civil Action No. 6:12-cv-00661
\nPersonalWeb Technologies LLC et. al. v. Facebook Inc. filed yesterday in Texas Eastern Civil Action No. 6:12-cv-00662
\nPersonalWeb Technologies LLC et. al. v. Microsoft Corporation filed yesterday in Texas Eastern Civil Action No. 6:12-cv-00663<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given the description of the company<\/a>:<\/p>\n

PersonalWeb is a proud member of the East Texas community. We are now 14 employees strong and growing. We own 15 key pending and issued patents that are critical to the development of a wide range of established and emerging distributed computing based industries and fundamental for cloud computing, distributed search engine file systems, content addressable storage and social networks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That leaves a horribly familiar SCO aftertaste.<\/p>\n

P.S.: More on Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Linux Weekly News reports that: Personalweb Technologies and Level 3 Communications have filed\u00a0a lawsuit [PDF]\u00a0against Rackspace, alleging that Rackspace’s hosting of GitHub infringes upon\u00a0a long list\u00a0of software patents. One of the comments lists a few possibly related law suits: PersonalWeb Technologies LLC et. al. v. Yahoo! Inc. filed yesterday in Texas Eastern Civil Action No. … Continue reading Is PersonalWeb Technologies a new SCO?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[2809,577,2878],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-github","tag-law","tag-patents"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26999,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/28\/s3-static-site-with-ssl\/","url_meta":{"origin":16736,"position":0},"title":"S3 static site with SSL","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\"S3 static site with SSL and automatic deploys using Travis\" is a goldmine of all those simple technologies tied into a single knot for an impressive result. \u00a0It has a bit of everything: Jekyll - simple, blog-aware, static sites engine, for managing content. 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