IBM Grants Universal and Perpetual Access To IP

StonyandCher writes "IBM is making it easier to utilize its patented intellectual property to implement nearly 200 standards in the SOA, Web services, security and other spaces. Under a pledge issued by the company Wednesday, IBM is granting universal and perpetual access to intellectual property that might be necessary to implement standards designed to make software interoperable. IBM will not assert any patent rights to its technologies featured in these standards. The company believes its move in this space is the largest of its kind."

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Re:Dilbert's boss.

[Don_dumb]

According to your link, he spend 17 years at Crocker National Bank and Pacific Bell (around 9 years each). They don't seem to have ever been part of Big Blue (at least according to their wiki pages), so thanks for the irrelevant link.