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The Inquirer: IBM Patents Method for Paying Open Source Volunteers

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“A patent IBM was granted last December is for an ‘invention’
that allows independent programmers who might work together to
produce a unified software product.

“In fact, the patent, 6,658,642 goes further and gives examples
such as open source software development such as Linux as the basis
for its patent…”

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