IBM’s case against TurboHercules is not the issue; their mistake using pledged patents is.
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✍ When Reptiles Attack: Has IBM Tired Of FOSS?
Posted on April 8, 2010 by Simon Phipps
What is the significance of IBM’s patent attack on the company behind the open source Hercules community? I believe it may indicate a change in the balance of power inside IBM, one probably reflected in other large corporations, as cloud computing rises in prominence and as the main disruptive force becomes Google – a large [...]
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☞ Patents and Profits
Posted on April 7, 2010 by Simon Phipps
IBM: Back to the Bad Old Days? Pretty good analysis of the IBM patent aggression from ESR: “IBM has reached a critical juncture. For the last decade the company has has had it both ways – allied with the open-source community to grow its forward-looking services business, and creamed big profits off the long-since-paid-for z-Series [...]
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✍ In A World Without Walls…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by Simon Phipps
