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IBM Gives FOSS Free Access to 500 Patents - Rethinks IP Management

Subject: IBM Gives FOSS Free Access to 500 Patents - Rethinks IP Management
From: greg at freephile.com (Greg Rundlett)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:17:29 -0500

If you've been as busy as I've been lately, you might not have heard 
that IBM is proving Linus' quote: "Linux is inevitable".  With a 
dramatic shift in their 'Intellectual Property' Management, IBM is 
standing behind free software more than ever.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050110235654673

-- 
Greg Rundlett
www.rundlett.com
www.freephile.com

randomly selected fortune:

Let us treat men and women well;
Treat them as if they were real;
Perhaps they are.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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