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IBM reinforces 500 patentsIBM reinforces 500 patentsPosted Jan 11, 2005 16:35 UTC (Tue) by danielos (subscriber, #6053)Parent article: IBM frees 500 patents
IBM frees .. yes, for free software it is good, but for closed source it is just another way to reinforce patents.
Let take MySQL who sells products in a dual license model, they have to pay for patent to IBM if some code go inside mysqldb or maxdb.
The real matter is that software patents is a bad (absurd) thing and IBM just make a different use of 500 software patents, do not really frees those.
This is just a possible use of patents. Thus IBM reinforces software patents.
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IBM reinforces 500 patents Posted Jan 11, 2005 18:17 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link] " Let take MySQL who sells products in a dual license model, they have to pay for patent to IBM if some code go inside mysqldb or maxdb. "
Do they now ?... and if those RDBMS are to run on a IBM PPC Machine, wouldn't the pledge to not attack Open Source will get more focus, and actuality ?...
I was never an afficionado of the old corporative mentality, but everybody has the rigfht to exist under the rules of law and right. So what i belive is that IBM is doing a *bold* move, experimenting new approches, trying to keep the focus that where sleeping to Novell, and frankly i dont belive they quite realise the enourmous consequences that their move can leed to... this is just the very *SHORT* beggining, but i dont belive IBM can see how "things" gonna be at the end of it... i dont belive anybody really can, period.
IBM reinforces 500 patents Posted Jan 11, 2005 21:48 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] IBM isn't quite going to say, "If Microsoft actually goes after some user of OSS for patent infringement, we will use our patents to get a court order prohibiing them from shipping any software for the foreseeable future. Anyone smaller, we'll simply put out of business." On the other hand, they might imply it to counter the FUD against OSS with respect to patents.
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