Another IBM statement

Another IBM statement

Posted Apr 6, 2010 23:51 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1)
Parent article: IBM and the labors of TurboHercules

I encountered this Wall Street Journal post after putting the article up. They have a new statement from IBM which reads a bit less well: "In 2005, when IBM announced open access to 500 patents that we own, we said the pledge is applicable to qualified open-source individuals or companies. We have serious questions about whether TurboHercules qualifies. TurboHercules is a member of organizations founded and funded by IBM competitors such as Microsoft to attack the mainframe. We have doubts about TurboHercules’ motivations."

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Another IBM statement

Posted Apr 7, 2010 4:06 UTC (Wed) by zorro (subscriber, #45643) [Link]

I also have to say that "We stand behind the pledge we made in 2005, and also our rights to protect our significant investments in mainframe technology" is not very open to charitable interpretation. It sounds more like "We will not sue you unless we want to".