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CA Releases Patents to OSS

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the moving-in-the-right-direction dept.

simonfairfax writes "ComputerWorld reports that Computer Associates International has released 14 patents to the opensource community, following IBM's lead. From the article: 'CA said it is joining IBM in encouraging other companies to create an industrywide "patent commons" in which patents are pledged royalty-free to further innovation in areas of broad interest to developers and users of IT.'"

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  1. Yay by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looking through here, it seems like these aren't CA's lame ducks either...
    The actual list of patents can be found at CA's website

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