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IBM frees 500 patentsIBM frees 500 patentsPosted Jan 11, 2005 15:48 UTC (Tue) by a_hippie (guest, #34)Parent article: IBM frees 500 patents
Can not recall anything like this ever happening before (at least in U.S. history.) Seems extraordinary and may mark a change in "doing business as usual."
Think I will try to keep it in that perspective--more hope is better than. . .
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IBM frees 500 patents Posted Jan 11, 2005 21:29 UTC (Tue) by jdave23 (guest, #27160) [Link] May I call your attention to the fact that Nikola Tesla donated his patents for the generation of Alternating Current to George Westinghouse.
This was an act of incredible significance. And a true precedent for demonstrating the benefits of such altruism.
IBM frees 500 patents Posted Jan 12, 2005 3:09 UTC (Wed) by kmself (subscriber, #11565) [Link]
Suggests that Mr. Tesla, in his beneficence, should have required Westinghouse release any patent-embodying technolgies under an OSI Certified Open Source license. Note too: there's a difference between a grant to a single individual or entity, and a general grant. For a counterexample, look at RCA, which IIRC was conceived as a patent pool for radio broadcast technologies, as a way of addressing antitrust concerns WRT General Electric.
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