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Old 04-08-2010
Why I Believe IBM is Free to Sue The Pants Off TurboHercules
It seems Groklaw will have to open a new category, answering Florian Mueller FUD.As you know he recently claimed that IBM had violated its public pledge not to sue Linux for patent infringement. I think he's mistaken. IBM, when it announced the patent pledge, specifically reserved the right to defend itself from attack:
"IBM has no intention of asserting its patent portfolio against the Linux kernel, unless of course we are forced to defend ourselves," said Nick Donofrio, senior vice president for technology and manufacturing, drawing applause in a speech at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
And in the TurboHercules story, who is suing whom? It's not IBM, folks. The complaint against IBM was filed with the EU Commission by TurboHercules. At that exact moment, did they not take themselves out from under the patent pledge's safety umbrella?
So be it.

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fud

FUD(8)							      System Manager's Manual							    FUD(8)

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NAME

       FUD - provide information about user mailboxes

SYNOPSIS

       fud [ -C config-file ] [ -U uses ] [ -T timeout ] [ -D ]

DESCRIPTION

       FUD is a long lived datagram daemon started from cyrmaster that provides information about when a user last read their mail, when mail last
       arrived in a user's mailbox, and how many messages are recent for that user.

       Note that for FUD to run properly you must set proto=udp in its cyrus.conf services entry.  prefork=1 is also recommended.  FUD will  auto-
       matically proxy any and all FUD requests to the appropriate backend server if it is runing on a Cyrus Murder frontend machine.

       FUD reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file unless specified otherwise by -C.

OPTIONS

       -C config-file
	      Read configuration options from config-file.

       -U uses
	      The maximum number of times that the process should be used for new connections before shutting down.  The default is 250.

       -T timeout
	      The number of seconds that the process will wait for a new connection before shutting down.  Note that a value of 0 (zero) will dis-
	      able the timeout.  The default is 60.

       -D     Run external debugger specified in debug_command.

FILES

       /etc/imapd.conf
	      Default configuration file.

       /etc/cyrus.conf
	      Cyrus Master process configuration file.

BUGS

       Though not really a bug, FUD will silently ignore any requests that it does not consider valid.

       Also not really a bug, FUD requires that the anonymous user has the 0 (zero) right on the mailbox  in  question.   This	is  only  a  "bug"
       because 0 is not a standard IMAP ACL bit.

       FUD is an experimental interface meant to provide information to build a finger-like service around.  Eventually it should be superceded by
       a more standards-based protocol.

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