From: "Geo" 

"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
news:pan.2005.01.21.03.04.54.115692{at}shultzinfosystems.com...

> They didn't have to release them at all. Is that not worth praise?

I didn't say it's not worth praise, but it's like MS giving away a network
card with each box of windows pro. I see it more as a gimmick than anything
significant.

With IBM it's probably that their own code they have contributed to open
source already violates these patents so they probably didn't have any
choice.

Geo.

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