Hibernate may violate "Object model mapping and runtime engine" patent

"Red Hat will face a patent infringement lawsuit this week over whether Hibernate, which it inherited from JBoss violates ORM patents held by FireStar Software. FireStar alleges that Hibernate violates U.S. patent 6,101,502 -- " Object model mapping and runtime engine for employing relational database with object oriented software."
The world has gone mad.
Published Sunday, July 23, 2006 5:34 PM by RoyOsherove
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Sunday, July 23, 2006 11:55 AM by Gabriel Lozano-Morán

# re: Hibernate may violate "Object model mapping and runtime engine" patent

Oh my god!
Sunday, July 23, 2006 12:10 PM by Crad's .NET Blog

# I brevetti software colpiscono ancora...

Sunday, July 23, 2006 2:55 PM by Ayende Rahien

# re: Hibernate may violate "Object model mapping and runtime engine" patent

The spesifics of their "patent" has been around for ages in Smalltalk and other enviornment, I do not believe that it will hold wather.
Sunday, July 23, 2006 6:30 PM by Albert Pascual

# re: Hibernate may violate "Object model mapping and runtime engine" patent

When the computer crashes violates my rights as well ;-)
Sunday, July 23, 2006 8:45 PM by Karl

# re: Hibernate may violate "Object model mapping and runtime engine" patent

Maybe if we just load the OR mapper from an external file? lol
Sunday, July 23, 2006 9:16 PM by IceMan

# re: Hibernate may violate "Object model mapping and runtime engine" patent

I hate patents.
Monday, July 24, 2006 9:20 AM by k4gdw

# re: Hibernate may violate "Object model mapping and runtime engine" patent

Patents are OK in my opinion as long as there's an actual product. I don't like the idea of someone filing patents on every idea they can dream up, never intending to develop an actual product, with the intention of suing when someone else actually does develop a product.