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IBM's patent offensiveIBM's patent offensivePosted Aug 14, 2003 11:02 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)Parent article: IBM's patent offensive Perhaps IBM's executives are investing their company in open source only because they know that their fearsome patent portfolio can close out competitors and start charging end-users a fee for use anytime they want. Presumably they don't want to until there are more end-users (especially businesses) who are using the software that their patents give them control over.
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