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IBM And Sony Form Linux Alliance
An anonymous reader writes "CNN is reporting that IBM, Sony, and Philips are creating a Linux adoption group. Called the 'Open Invention Network', it is intended to protect vendors and customers from patent royalty fees while using OSS." From the article: "Patents owned by OIN will be available without payment of royalties to any company, institution or individual that agrees not to assert its patents against others who have signed a license with OIN, when using certain Linux-related software. Traditionally, patents have been pursued for two primary reasons -- to defend one's own intellectual property or for barter to trade in cross-licensing agreements to gain access to other companies' patents. OIN represents a new form of cross-licensing that its backers say could spur innovation. "
Now Sony can make a Linux rootkit too!
Just "gittin-r-done," day after day.
Close, but more of a burnt sienna.
--Ryv
Sony just wants IBM's Linux knowledge to develop a better rootkit for their CDs.
They will provide "Root Kits" for any operating system!
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
My $699 Linux license protects me from things like GPL lawsuits, acts of God, and robot attacks. It sounds a bit steep at first, but SCO assures me it was money well spent!
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Oops, sorry. I seem to have mis-spelled "Fuck you Sony, you rootkit spreading scum suckers". The keys are right next to each other.
Aren't we suppose to be hating Sony now?
(Go ahead and mod redundant, just like you did the FIRST POST that made this joke)
Ya, they probably have really tense cross-department picnics.
I can just see the SCE guys going to eat the cake, and the Sony Music guys saying "You can't eat that until we say! It's copywritten!".
Oh well, I guess the moral is that Sony Music doesn't want you to have a cake and eat it too.
Does that mean tux can yell out: LINUX ALLIANCE ASSSSEEEEEMBLEEE and have big blue and sony fly from the sky to fight crime?
Calm down people, its a religion not an operating system.
Perhaps you are right. In the eyes of the law, a corporation is a single entity. I guess that people (myself included) also tend to think of it as a single entity.
Corporations are not sentient beings.
If they were, they'd be large 100 foot tall immortal beasts living off the blood of small children.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
To me, this is no different than HP.
If it's HP, and it's a printer, great.
If it's HP, and it's computers...well...RUN
I don't know how they do so great with one, and so damn poorly with the other.