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DRM Company: If You Think Patents Are Bad, You're Un-American
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| In our recent discussion about another bad idea for a new type of DRM that
| will surely fail, Steve R. pointed us to an article in Forbes about
| Intertrust, the DRM company, who apparently is cooking up yet another DRM
| scheme. But, unlike the system we talked about in the original post --
| where the guy noted that the concept had to be widely adopted as a
| standard, and not protected, Intertrust goes on and on and on about how
| it's got a ton of DRM patents to protect this new DRM scheme. This isn't a
| surprise. Intertrust's entire business model was based on suing Microsoft
| for patent infringement.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090910/0251466148.shtml
IBM claims patents promote open-source love
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| But a recent nugget buried in IBM's amicus brief for the Bilski case takes
| a novel slant on the issue. Big Blue told the US Supreme Court that
| software patent lockdowns are actually the secret to open source's success.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/11/ibm_patent_promote_open_source/
Recent:
IBM says software patents drive OSS development
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| In its Amicus Brief to the US Supreme Court on the Bilski case, IBM is
| arguing that "patent protection has promoted the free sharing of source code
| [...] which has fueled the explosive growth of open source software
| development."
|
| [...]
|
| Read also page 42 of the IBM letter:
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| In addition, disclosure of software inventions promotes collaboration
| among software developers (such as open source development)
|
| Insane.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-179907/ibm-says-software-patents-drive-oss-development
IBM's Supreme Court Brief Says That Patents Drive Free Software
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/03/1616220/IBMs-Supreme-Court-Brief-Says-That-Patents-Drive-Free-Software
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