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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:Open source is not exclusive to Linux by civilizedINTENSITY · · Score: 0, Troll

    Come on. When MS Windows is open like Linux is open, then we can start "equating open source" with MS Windows as we do with Linux. The fact that FOSS will run on MS Windows doesn't mean MS Windows is FOSS.