IBM Pledges Free Access to Patents Involved in Implementing 150+ Software
Standards
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| IBM today announced that it is granting universal and perpetual access to
| certain intellectual property that might be necessary to implement more than
| 150 standards designed to make software interoperable.
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An open source skeptic's take:
MySQL's Planned IPO: OSS Buzz Isn't Enough
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| Red Hat’s timing was excellent. This was true from a product/market
| perspective. What Red Hat wanted to do was essentially get users to migrate
| from a moribund Unix market made up of that IT Top 12 group of suppliers, not
| counting Microsoft, who were backing off their support of Unix.
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