USA Today: IBM, Schools Pursue Open-Source Research

"IBM, which has been a big backer of open-source software, is working with seven universities on new computing research projects whose fruits would be widely shared rather than held as intellectual property.

"The program calls for researchers at IBM and the universities to work together on software projects in such fields as privacy and security, then release the results as open-source programming code that anyone can use or alter..."

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