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Re: IBM Pledges to free 500 U.S. Patents
Posted on 11-Jan-2005 23:16:07
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|  Way to go!
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Re: IBM Pledges to free 500 U.S. Patents
Posted on 11-Jan-2005 23:20:44
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| What a nice gesture
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Re: IBM Pledges to free 500 U.S. Patents
Posted on 12-Jan-2005 0:18:23
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| I wonder if there is any PPC stuff that could be of some use for Mai and Eyetech and whoever?
Too bad VIA couldn't do something like this for some of their old "bug ridden" chipsets! 
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Re: IBM Pledges to free 500 U.S. Patents
Posted on 12-Jan-2005 6:35:56
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| LOL! If IBM really wanted to support innovation they'd lobby for the abolition of software patents.
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Re: IBM Pledges to free 500 U.S. Patents
Posted on 12-Jan-2005 8:35:07
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| Agreed, this is just bs.
If you have nuclear weapons and promise not to use them on me, does it turn nuclear weapons into something good? Certainly not, nuclear weapons will still be bad for everybody. The same goes for software patents.
Some links:
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com
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Re: IBM Pledges to free 500 U.S. Patents
Posted on 12-Jan-2005 8:53:38
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| Seen the sub-heading in their press release?
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| IBM Receives Most U.S. Patents For Twelfth Year In A Row |
The amount of patents they hold makes 500 seem like a drop in the ocean.
Anyway, I guess the real question is are these (royalty free) patents of any use to anyone?
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Re: IBM Pledges to free 500 U.S. Patents
Posted on 12-Jan-2005 10:48:41
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I don't think it's bs. As a U.S. corporation, they *have to* protect whatever ideas they come up with before another company does it, making them unable to ever make use of the idea. It's not their fault, they're simply following the rules set by the U.S. government. So, considering that they are not in a position to change the U.S. corporate laws and regulations, it's a great initiative that one can only hope that more U.S. corporations will follow. It would of course be even better if the U.S. government would finally reform their patent registration laws, but until then; thank you IBM!
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Re: IBM Pledges to free 500 U.S. Patents
Posted on 12-Jan-2005 12:08:39
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| Well you got a point there...
But it will certainly not happend tomorrow that companies in the patent-mafia will argue for a healthy reformation of the patent system (unfortunately). Last edited by hagar on 12-Jan-2005 at 12:09 PM.
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Re: IBM Pledges to free 500 U.S. Patents
Posted on 12-Jan-2005 13:47:39
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| None of these on this list will be considered HVA patents. |
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Re: IBM Pledges to free 500 U.S. Patents
Posted on 12-Jan-2005 22:33:07
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Re: IBM Pledges to free 500 U.S. Patents
Posted on 14-Jan-2005 1:06:39
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| It's a nice gesture, however I work in Patents and I am willing to bet that half of those 500 patents wouldn't hold up in court.
The other half are probably for fanciful, theoretical inventions which are darn near impossible to enforce.
It's a marketing gimmick, no more.
If IBM were serious about supporting open source software they would give out free licenses to open source developers to use all patents. I can't see any open source developers searching through the 500 patents to see what they can use.
Come on, IBM is the company which used to publish "Technical Disclosure Journals" where its employees published any mediocre idea that popped in their head, just to prevent other people patenting it. |
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