eWeek: Defending Open Source
Jan 27, 2005, 01:00 (2 Talkback[s])
"IBM, again playing its role as the 'friendly giant' of the
open-source community, recently granted access to 500 software
patents to any project that releases its code under an Open Source
Initiative-approved license.
"While IBM's unshackled intellectual property isn't likely, on
its own, to spur much new open-source development, it will help put
significant open-source projects on more stable ground..."
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