Sophos, Fortinet settle patent lawsuit, allegations of staff poaching

Sophos has settled a patent infringement lawsuit with US competitor Fortinet, in a case that also involved allegations of staff poaching. The recently listed UK company, a cloud and network security solutions outfit, paid an undisclosed sum to Fortinet to settle the dispute, as a brief statement (below) explains. Sophos …

[Alan Brown]

That would be the same Fortinet which tried to pass off Linux as its own work.

Would you trust a company which pulled that?