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PC Pro: Computer Associates’ Patent Donation is Slammed

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 13, 2005

“Greg Aharonian, a vehement campaigner for higher quality
patents, slammed Computer Associates’ patent donation last week to
the open source community as a ‘fraud to impress the naive.’

“CA’s donation of some 14 patents last Wednesday covers areas
such as application development and modeling, business intelligence
and analytics, systems management and storage management solutions
and network management and security tools. They involve both US and
international patents…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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