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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
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14 Jan 2005 12:23:03 PM |
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OT: I.B.M. |
Big Blue becomes bountiful
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3554542
Jan 11th 2005
From The Economist Global Agenda
IBM is forgoing royalties on 500 of its software patents. In doing so,
it hopes to make the computer industry more innovative and, in the long
run, to make more money from collaborating with other programmers
IT IS no coincidence that, on Tuesday January 11th, IBM became the
first big computer company to flout tradition and make freely available
a large number of its patents to anybody using open-source software.
For starters, the company holds more patents than any rival: last year
alone it was granted 3,248 new licences by the United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO). This was 1,300 more than any other company
and the twelfth consecutive year in which IBM has topped the list.
Indeed, the company currently has about 40,000 active patents
worldwide, from which it earned more than $1 billion last year in
royalties.
I.B.M.
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=IBM&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=IBM&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=IBM&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=IBM&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
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