Another reason to develop open source: IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source. This is really significant when you realize that IBM is the largest holder of software related patents, and they are also the largest collector of patent royalties for in the computer industry. They still make money from every computer sold. Chances are if you develop software you may be infringing on one of IBM's patents.
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2 comments:
May be infringing? Right, if you develop software you are infringing. Some days I think we are headed twards a Snow Crash landscape. (Snow Crash is a book by Neal Stephenson).
Yes, I am familiar with Snow Crash. Good book. Maybe scary, but good.
I probably should have said that you "would be" infringing on one of IBM's patents. No "may be" about it.
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