“Corporate behemoth Big Blue has long since established itself
as a leading sponsor of the open source community, regularly making
significant contributions of software, money, and human capital.
Yet even in light of its already rampant activity over the past few
years, 2005 is already proving to be particularly impressive in
terms of the ninety-four year old company’s almost weekly
announcements of various new open source committments. Two of the
most recent donations have come in the form of thirty software
projects and the release of 500 patents for open source use…”
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