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IBM Ditches Outsourcing Patent

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the whoops-our-bad dept.

Xenographic writes "IBM has dropped their controversial outsourcing patent, both withdrawing the application and placing it into the public domain. Apparently, it was filed eight months before they implemented more stringent reviews of their patent applications so as to avoid filing for obvious patents, especially business method patents. The notice also says that they would like to thank the community for bringing it to their attention."

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  1. IBM = Indian Business Machines by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I remember when IBM used to be a great company that made quality products. The people there were devoted to IBM, and IBM to them. They were a good corporate system, and stood behind rock, solid quality products.

    Then people left, and standards dropped. They got into cheap and nasty manufacturing (The IBM "DeathStar" Hard Drives), and knowingly kept selling defective hard drives. The old IBM would have never done that. Now they don't even make PCs anymore. All that's left is just another outsourcing company, at that, one that fires workers whenever they want to boost their share price. Their CEO is rumoured to be readying to fire workers and transfer the bulk of jobs to India. This is why outsourcing is so important to them.
    http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/11/04/HNpalmisanoindia_1.html

  2. Re:Speechless by Seumas · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    More flexibility for corporate America to offshore jobs right under their citizens' feet! Hurrah! I mean. . . . wait . . .

  3. Outsourcing patented? by djasbestos · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I wish...my company probably would not pay for licensing of that process...then we'd HAVE to get rid of the idiots we have working overseas.