On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:04, James Bruce wrote:
> I believe that IBM is simply responding to the recent study that "Linux
> violates more than 283 patents". Regardless of the truth to that study,
The study said that it may violate patents; but that those patents may
not be enforceable due to
I believe that IBM is simply responding to the recent study that "Linux
violates more than 283 patents". Regardless of the truth to that study,
this is IBM's way of stating that the 60 that they hold will not be used
against Linux or other open source projects.
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
On Mon,
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:37 +0100, Bernhard Schauer wrote:
> > And almost all of them are pure software-patents and probably prior art.
> > Thus they are - at least in Europe - not relevant and actually illegal
> > if you believe in the current European patent law as defined by the
> > European Pat
> And almost all of them are pure software-patents and probably prior art.
> Thus they are - at least in Europe - not relevant and actually illegal
> if you believe in the current European patent law as defined by the
> European Patent Convention (see Â52(2) for details).
Hopefully nothing will ch
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 08:44 -0500, linux-os wrote:
> Tue Jan 11 07:07:40 EST 2005
>
> IBM has announced that it will provide free access to about
No, they only promise now to not sue anyone given the following
criteria. No one knows what happens in 5 years.
> 500 of its existing software patents
Tue Jan 11 07:07:40 EST 2005
IBM has announced that it will provide free access to about
500 of its existing software patents to users and groups
working on open source software.
http://www.ibm.com/news/us/
Many of these patents relate to interoperability, communications,
file-export proto
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