Posted by: Anonymous
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on November 01, 2007 10:56 PM
There are not sue agreements from IBM and other companies. Ie if your product is open source and you don't have restriction from IBM shipping your program you can use there complete patent stock pile. Nice of them. IBM looks at open source as a development field that they might be able to get useful things out of.
Now you really have to be sure you don't need patents to stop a patent suit. http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Osapa Open Source as prior art. This is were its different. Open Source will attempt to kill patent before paying. Reason why Redhat wants MS to lay there patents on the table so they can kill off as many as able before paying anything.
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That is not the complete list of Linux patents
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 203.212.157.222] on November 01, 2007 10:56 PMNow you really have to be sure you don't need patents to stop a patent suit. http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Osapa Open Source as prior art. This is were its different. Open Source will attempt to kill patent before paying. Reason why Redhat wants MS to lay there patents on the table so they can kill off as many as able before paying anything.
The true anti-patent move.
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