Red Hat criticized for staking out patent claim on standard (Ars Technica)
Posted by adminMar 18
Linux distributor Red Hat is facing criticism for filing a patent application on a technology relating to the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), a vendor-neutral open standard that describes a protocol for middleware message passing. The patent application was filed in 2007 and was recently disclosed for the first time by the US Patent Office for a public review process that will take …
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