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IBM uses pledged patents against open source mainframe emulator
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| The letter includes a "non-exhaustive" list
| of 106 IBM patents and 67 pending patent
| applications. Mueller found that on
| examining the list, two of the patents
| mentioned in the letter, 5613086 and
| 5220669 are among the five hundred patents
| in the IBM patent pledgePDF. Mueller says
| "This betrayal of the promise is
| unbelievable, but I never believed that IBM
| was sincere about that pledge in the first
| place". He calls for regulatory
| intervention against IBM and points out
| that TurboHercules had already lodged anti-
| trust complaint with the European
| Commission.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/IBM-uses-pledged-patents-against-open-source-mainframe-emulator-970674.html
IBM: Open Source's Friend? Not So Much Now
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| IBM certainly has some explaining to do. It
| needs to make clear where it stands on open
| source, and where on software patents. It
| needs to understand that the two are not
| compatible, and that it cannot truly be a
| friend of the former while deploying the
| latter as weapons against free software,
| even when the victims sit on the latter's
| fringe rather than at its heart. After such
| a long and mutually beneficial
| relationship, it would be sad if IBM
| decides that it prefers software patents to
| open source â and ultimately to its
| detriment.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2891&blogid=14
IBM tears up open source patent pledge, claims FOSS
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/06/ibm_hercules_project_patents/
IBM Breaks Open Source Patent Pledge
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/06/1421255/IBM-Breaks-Open-Source-Patent-Pledge
IBM breaks OSS patent promise, targets mainframe emulator
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/ibm-breaks-oss-patent-promise-targets-mainframe-emulator.ars
IBM TurboHercules Patent Threat Letter
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| For people reading this page from Slashdot,
| I have to confess that IBM is still
| lobbying for software patents in the
| European Union though the creation of a
| central patent court. IBM, like Microsoft,
| is actively lobbying in Brussels not to
| reopen the software patent directive
| through the Community Patent discussions,
| and the creation of a central patent court.
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http://www.zoobab.com/ibm-turbohercules-patent-threat-letter
Open-source Advocate Enters IBM Antitrust Fray
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| Software developer and political lobbyist
| Florian Mueller weighed in on the European
| Commission's investigation of monopoly
| abuse claims against IBM, accusing the
| computing giant of deserting the interests
| of the open-source software community.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/193559/opensource_advocate_enters_ibm_antitrust_fray.html
Florian Mueller finds a new windmill to attack in IBM
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| Fresh off his humiliating defeat at the
| hands of Oracle, Florian Mueller is now
| tilting at IBM, accusing it of open source
| treason for trying to enforce a monopoly it
| won before he was born.
|
| [...]
|
| The question is just how much IBM
| credibility might be lost as a result of
| TurboHercules. Mueller wants to make
| certain itâs a lot.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=6202
BM Breaks Promise; Threatens Open Source Company Over Patents
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100406/1628178904.shtml
IBM Denies Breaking Its Open-Source Promise
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| The open-source software community is up in
| arms over claims that IBM has broken a
| promise by asserting its patents against an
| open-source project. IBM denies that it has
| done so.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/IBM-Denies-Breaking-Its-Open-Source-Promise-672104/
IBM Betrayed Open Source Pledge According To FOSS Proponents
http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2010/4/7/ibm-betrayed-open-source-pledge-according-foss-proponents/
IBM breaks Open Source deal
http://www.techeye.net/software/ibm-breaks-open-source-deal
IBM is accused of patent betrayal
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1600095/ibm-accused-patent-betrayal
Roundup of coverage of yesterday's post
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| Australia's iTWire writes that IBM has
| broken its 2005 promise. In the discussion
| part below the article, a reader (Richard
| Chapman) gives a vivid description of the
| situation: "Having IBM at your side in the
| land of Open Source is sort of like having
| a large carnivore as a pet. They may play
| and cuddle with you but you never know if
| or when they will revert to their natural
| ways and have you for lunch."
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http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/04/roundup-of-coverage-of-yesterdays-post.html
Open-source Advocate Enters IBM Antitrust Fray
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| Thomas Vinje, the founder of the European
| Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS),
| which ranks IBM among its members, said
| that "Microsoft lies behind the antitrust
| complaints against IBM." Mueller can in
| turn be linked to Microsoft, he said,
| because he joined forces with Microsoft to
| oppose the Oracle-Sun deal, which was
| approved after an in-depth investigation by
| the Commission that ended in December.
| Vinje acted for Oracle in that case.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/193559/opensource_advocate_enters_ibm_antitrust_fray.html
IBM breaks patent pledge to FOSS community
http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/38109-ibm-breaks-patent-pledge-to-foss-community
Roger Bowler Responds to IBM Patent Attack on Open Source
http://www.turbohercules.com/news/permalink/a-statement-from-roger-bowler-about-hercules-and-ibm/
IBM and the labors of TurboHercules
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| The problem is that systems like z/OS and
| z/VM are proprietary software, subject to
| the usual obnoxiousness. In particular,
| IBM's licensing does not allow these
| systems to be run on anything but IBM's
| hardware. So when TurboHercules tried to
| get IBM to license its operating system to
| run on Hercules-based boxes, IBM refused.
| TurboHercules responded by filing a
| complaint with the European Commission
| alleging antitrust violations. According to
| TurboHercules, IBM's licensing restrictions
| amount to an illegal tying of products.
|
| One need not agree with IBM's position to
| understand it. IBM understands well the
| power of commoditizing its competitors'
| proprietary technology - that's what its
| support for Linux is all about, in the end.
| Emulated mainframes running on generic
| Linux or Windows boxes can only look like
| an attempt to commoditize one of IBM's cash
| cows. The fact that this product requires
| running IBM's proprietary software gives
| the company a lever with which to fight
| back. Whether one feels that refusing to
| license that software in this situation is
| a proper action or not, one should agree
| that it's unsurprising that IBM exercised
| that option.
|
| TurboHercules evidently sent IBM a letter
| questioning whether IBM actually owned any
| useful intellectual property in this area.
| IBM responded with a letter listing 175
| patents owned or applied for, all of which
| are said to apply to IBM's mainframe
| architectures. Two of these patents, it
| turns out, are on the list of patents which
| IBM explicitly pledged not to assert
| against the free software community.
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https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/382350/47cb2085536a2ba3/
Open Invention Network Extends the Linux Ecosystem as Ooma Becomes Licensee
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| Open Invention Network (OIN), the company
| formed to enable and protect Linux, today
| extended the Linux ecosystem with the
| signing of Ooma as a licensee. By becoming
| a licensee, Ooma has joined the growing
| list of companies that recognize the
| importance of participating in a
| substantial community of Linux supporters
| and leveraging the Open Invention Network
| to further spur open source innovation.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/open-invention-network-extends-the,1235129.shtml
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