like this patent will ever fly

[Christopher Layne]

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2574359

 A series of patents have been filed by the well-known Linux kernel developer,
 Alan Cox, asserting ownership of any DRM technology employed in software to
 modify the behavior of a system if certain conditions are not met. Since Red
 Hat and Cox himself are staunch open-source proponents, if this patent is
 granted it is likely that they will choose not to license this technology,
 and instead, sue for any use of it as a defense of OSS. Red Hat's patent
 policy (http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html) states that any
 patents they own will be used to defend FOSS developers if attacked. It
 also states that their patents may be used freely in OSS under gpl.