IBM frees 500 patents
Posted Jan 11, 2005 18:09 UTC (Tue) by
oak (guest, #2786)
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IBM frees 500 patents by jd
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IBM frees 500 patents
I don't see this as IBM doesn't know how to invest Open Source, some of
the software is abandonware just because that particular project has ended
and doesn't have more funding so they throw the code out and hope that
somebody else maintains it in the case they will need/use it again.
IMHO Open Sourcing is also a nice way to share code *within* a company.
Intranet search engines usually suck pretty badly even in big companies.
If you throw the code out, other people within the company can find it
through Google... ;-)
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