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Loganâs Run
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| IBMâs greatest threat is its ability to stifle
| innovation. The way the company is off-shoring jobs
| and minimizing the value of its support workers
| demonstrates this. The threat will be when a group of
| smart folks in China or India realize how things could
| be done better, then starts taking work away from IBM.
| They will have access to an army of IBM foreign
| workers, too, who will bring customer contacts with
| them.
|
| On the other hand, this application is also typical of
| an IBM patent. There are many aspects to implementing
| such a training process â data gathering, information
| management, software, hardware, etc. â and IBM has
| patented every part. So if anyone makes a something
| similar, IBM could sue. If you create gaming software
| to teach almost anything to almost anyone, this patent
| may trump you.
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http://www.cringely.com/2009/09/logans-run/
Patent Troll Tracker Trial: Defamation Or A Chance To Silence A Voice Some Patent Lawyers Didn't Like
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| As you hopefully recall, back in late 2007, a
| wonderful, informative and useful blog suddenly popped
| up on the scene, highlighting some of the worst abuses
| of the patent system by shell corporations suing
| companies that were actually innovating.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090921/0254336263.shtml
Recent:
IBM Wants Patent On Conference Call Laugh Tracks
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| theodp writes "The first known use of a recorded laugh
| track is said to be in 1950, when the producers of the
| Hank McCune Show added canned laughter after the show's
| taping. Almost 60 years later, IBM says it deserves a
| patent for 'inventing' adding canned laughter to
| conference calls. 'A pre-selected stored sound (e.g.,
| an interjection such as a laugh) may be generated if
| there is a period of silence on one of the telephone
| lines that exceeds a threshold,' explains Big Blue in
| its just-published patent application for Enlivening
| Conference Calls to Make Conference Calls More
| Interesting for Participants. Eureka!"
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090914/0259236178.shtml
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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 flings FUD at Neon zPrimers
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| Â50 cash back & Â50 off selected Toshiba laptops
|
| As El Reg anticipated when the zPrime mainframe acceleration software tool
| was announced by Neon Enterprise Software, the tool has not only gotten the
| attention of IBM, but has compelled Big Blue to warn its customers about
| using it.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/30/ibm_zprime_response/
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