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DATE	2005-01-11
FROM	Ruben Safir
SUBJECT	Subject: [hangout] IBM - Software Patents
Big Blue hands over software patents to open source 11 January, 2005 by Robert Dutt As part of its commitment to the Linux operating system, IBM Tuesday announced that it would allow open access to 500 IBM software patents to anyone working on open source software, whether an individual or a group. According to the company, technology covered by the 500 patents will be made available to "any individual, community, or company working on or using software that meets the Open Source Initiative definition of open source software now or in the future." "True innovation leadership is about more than just the numbers of patents granted. It's about innovating to benefit customers, partners and society," said John Kelly, senior vice president of technology and intellectual property at IBM, in a prepared statement. The company calls the move the beginning of forming the basis of a "patent commons," where patents will be made freely available to all comers in many areas of broad interest to the IT market and its developers and users. Big Blue says that the patents it is making available will help open source developers to build their applications faster, increase interoperability between applications, and provide better standardization of information. "Continuing IBM's legacy of leadership in the strategic use of intellectual property, our pledge today is the beginning of a new era in how IBM will manage intellectual property to benefit our partners and clients," Kelly said. "Unlike the preceding Industrial Economy, the Innovation Economy requires that intellectual property be deployed for more than just providing the owner with freedom of action and income generation." IBM had previously -- at last year's LinuxWorld -- pledged to not use any of its patents "against the Linux kernel," as it alleges rival SCO Group is doing in taking IBM to court. SCO says that IBM has made technology covered by its license for Unix, and derivatives of that work, available to the Linux community, and that's the basis for the nasty court battles between the two. The company still acknowledges intellectual property ownership as "an essential driver of innovation," but says that advancing technology in general requires the sharing of knowledge and standards. It says that its pledge will protect new, novel and useful invention, but allow open standards that will speed development. The news comes as the company can announce that for the twelfth straight year, it earned more patents than any other U.S. company, with 3,248 patents. The company says this is the fourth consecutive year it has notched more than 3,000 patents, and maintains that it is the only company to ever get more than 2,000 patents in a single year. ____________________________ NYLXS: New Yorker Free Software Users Scene Fair Use - because it's either fair use or useless.... NYLXS is a trademark of NYLXS, Inc