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IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the leading-by-example dept.

kfiller writes "IBM announced that over 500 of their currently held software patents will be freely available to use for those who are working on open source projects (NY Times, free registration required), with the hope that more companies will do the same. More information is available at SourceLicense."

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  1. Here's the press release by femto · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Press Release.

    The release includes detail on licensing.

  2. Re:Reg-free sites by w4f7z · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Or if you are running Firefox, like you should be, you can just get bugmenot! It gets past all those free reg requirements by using accounts that people have chosen to make public.