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echo: barktopus
to: Joe Hunt
from: Geo
date: 2005-01-13 22:24:54
subject: Re: IBM and patents

From: "Geo" 

"Joe Hunt"  wrote in message
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> I've been trying to decide what IBM's motiviation is for this.

It's lip service to the open source community. IBM patents about 3000
things per year, releasing 500 patents to open source is meaningless in
that context. Did they even mention which patents?

Geo. (maybe it's all things that expire soon anyway)

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