On: Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay

[dredmorbius]

One of the entities RS acquired was SGI. Whom I suspect may have had a patent portfolio.

Not sure who got that though. Oh ... crap. Looks like they were retained by Graphics Properties Holdings, who is, you guessed it, a patent troll themselves:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120419/02113518553/sgi-ba...

[toddmorey → dredmorbius]

Oops, Rackspace never acquired SGI. That acquisition was done by a company called Rackable Systems.

[dredmorbius → toddmorey]

Doh! Thanks, I've been making that error for quite some time now.

It never really did make sense to me that Rackspace == SGI, especially since they weren't using the mark at all.

[jamesmcn → dredmorbius]

Microsoft bought out a large part of SGI's patent portfolio in the early XBox days. Then they sold the company to Rackable.

[dredmorbius → jamesmcn]

A bunch of the OpenGL stuff. Which has since been transferred at least in part to OIN:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/microsoft_sgi_patent...