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IBM frees 500 patentsIBM frees 500 patentsPosted Jan 12, 2005 12:41 UTC (Wed) by NESAC (guest, #3813)Parent article: IBM frees 500 patents
I'm pleased to see that IBM has done this, but we're getting distracted here. Software patents are a Bad Thing. By freeing this small subset of their patents, IBM may convince a few more people that they are not. If IBM and other large corporations really want to contribute to free software, it would be better to lobby for the abolishment of software patents where they exist, and against the adoption of software patents in plance like the EU.
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IBM frees 500 patents Posted Jan 12, 2005 13:39 UTC (Wed) by XERC (guest, #14626) [Link] Well, I guess that those onetime 500 patents out ofthe 3000+ patents per year is a good thing for OSS, but useless and small enough to fit in to IBM's public relations "quarterly" expense. I agree, that those 500 patents do not compensate the harm that they actively do by lobbying for software patents in EU.
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