With value of OSS indemnification?
I've stated previously that indemnification is not as valuable as the work that your OSS vendor does to ensure that you'll never need indemnification.
I still believe that 100%.
It looks like Red Hat questions the To judge the real value of OSS indemnification, we need to consider what the person/vendor that is claiming that their patent is being infringed really wants.
Is it a big payout from the end customer?
Maybe, but how reasonably can they expect that to be the outcome?
Much more likely, the patent-claiming individual/vendor could use the lawsuit to force the hand of the OSS vendor in question to license the patented code and make a payment to cover all the copies of the software distributed to date.
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Reconsidering The Value Of OSS Indemnification
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