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Computer Associates Pledges to Open Source Patents

Posted by Zonk on from the don't-fear-the-penguin dept.

DigitumDei writes "Systems management vendor Computer Associates International has confirmed that it intends to pledge a number of its patents to the open source community. This is a move by CA to make it clear that they do not intend to use their patents against Linux. They have, however, ruled out any further large scale donation of CA software code to the open source community as they just released the Ingres database management system under an open source license last year."

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  1. Re:This is commendable.. by MasterOfUniverse · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man this redicilous, I think the moderator just wanted to start this discussion..

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  2. Re:This is commendable.. by theVP · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to be redundant: yeah, how in the fuck does the first post get "redundant"?

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  3. Re:This is commendable.. by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Worse, it was probably sincere. And relevant.

  4. Post-SQL Progress? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can I dump/restore my PostgreSQL databases to Ingres, and reuse my middleware against their client drivers? Is Ingres any better than Postgres?

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  5. Re:Playing into the hands of OSS opponents... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I never get this whole open-source mumbo-jumbo. When I was young, we had to pay every bit, and we liked it.

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  7. Is it just me.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..or is the front page of Slashdot screwing up every so often such that the article blurbs appear off the right edge of the browser window? Just wondering. kthxbye

  8. Re:Open source is not exclusive to Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod parent up - offtopic? Who's the idiot that did that?

  9. Re:This is commendable.. by TopShelf · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Worse yet, how does a comment like that get modded "Insightful"? What insight could there possibly be hiddin within that post?

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  10. Open Source Parents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    After the child-minding robot, I read that title as:

    CA Pladges to Open Source Parents

  11. Re:Open source is not exclusive to Linux by northcat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And after one mod mods wrongfully, all other mods blindly follow the original mod without checking whether he was right.