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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."
Maybe now MS can fix their broken Windows? Two hundred patches next patch Tuesday...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Why the hell is the parent modded Troll? Looks like the mods are on crack these days.
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Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
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.
If this were really happening, what would you think?