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Open Source has Patents also. There are already several pools of patents pledged to Open Source and Linux. OIN aquired some more patents about a week or so ago http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/press_release.php . OIN is just an example of 1 such pool- OIN FYI is funded by IBM, Novell, Red Hat, Phillips, and Sony. IBM also has it's own patent pool dedicated to FOSS as does Novell and CA. Red Hat has a program that will pay a programmer to patent their work if it goes into a pool for Linux usage.
This is also an indication of a split in the mentality between the Free Software and Open Source Software movements. The Open Source movement is acquiring patents where as the Free Software movement sees software patents as an abomination and is trying to get software patents abolished or at least limited.
The real loser with software patents is the Non-Open source small developer, you know the small inventor whom patents are supposer to protect, as they neither benefit from the FOSS pools nor do they have the cash to get their own patents. - Posted by: Edward Meyers Posted on: 05/30/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
OIN and other patent pools
Edward Meyers | 05/30/06
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IU wonder why MS didn't name them as co-defendants.
No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/30/06
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Oops, "I wonder".. (nt)
No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/30/06
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EOLAS
Edward Meyers | 05/30/06
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No wonder you're surprised
Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/30/06
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Not to mention
Edward Meyers | 05/30/06
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Software Patents are pushing adoption of GPL
David Mohring | 05/30/06
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Corrections for Zdnet broken formatting
David Mohring | 05/30/06
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