Re: Intellectual Propriety

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Blair,

I had several conversations with Sr. IBM'ers at the COMMON conference/expo
in Toronto...including Borman.  There's a good case to be made for
controled open source inclusion expansion and I'm hoping you'll see ALOT
more of open sourcing of things in the near future....

Don in DC

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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Blair Wyman wrote:

>
> Hola, everybody.  Light fare for a Friday afternoon...
>
> Hey, this little company I work for (ticker symbol IBM) did what I think is
> a Really Neat Thing, and I am dying of curiousity about how this erudite
> and august body will react.
>
> Basically, IBM gave 500 of its patents to the open source community, by
> legally promising never to 'assert' them against OSS. (Now, I'm no lawyer
> -- I have enough people that don't like me already -- but it sure looks on
> the up-and-up to my Big Blue eyes.)
>
> Personally, I'm very excited by this -- my name is on one of these patents
> -- and I could not be happier.  Developing IP has always been a love/hate
> thing for me, with most of the justification being 'defensive:' "If we
> don't, they will..."  Now, when I think "patent" I am going to feel a LOT
> better about it.  Self-delusion?  Maybe...   You be the judge.
>
> Anyway, here are the links:
>       story:
> http://w3-03.ibm.com/systemstechnology/technology/news/2005/0111-patents.html
>       list (PDF):
> http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/patents/pledgedpatents.pdf
>
> (btw, the one that's near and dear to my heart is US5701489  :-)
>
> Comments?  Scathing rebuttals?  Angry accusations?  (Whaddy think this is,
> Fox News?)  ;-)
>
> -blair
>
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