IBM Patents

[linux-os]

Tue Jan 11 07:07:40 EST 2005

IBM has announced that it will provide free access to about
500 of its existing software patents to users and groups
working on open source software.

	http://www.ibm.com/news/us/

Many of these patents relate to interoperability, communications,
file-export protocols, and dynamic linking.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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