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« Deloitte predicts economic slowdown | Main | New York ISP has domain hijacked? » January 16, 2005IBM: offers free patents, offers to rebuild Linux kernelComputing giant IBM last week announced plans to offer around 500 patents to the open source community, in a planned investment of open source development for industry. As reported in IBM offers 500 patents for open-source use, the company does still retain vast number of patents by volume, suggested to be as many as 10,000. Crucially, however, the 500 includes an important set of 60, which were believed compromised by the development of Linux operating systems. Following that announcement came a report from Linux Business Week, which claimed in Linux Kernel To Be Re-Written To Counter Microsoft FUD that a consortium of companies - including IBM and Intel, and starring Linux founder Linus Torvalds - will fund a project to rewrite the Linux kernel so that it is free of an estimated 283 patent infringements - specifically, 27 suggested related to filings by Microsoft, which has long been expected to launch patent-infringement suits on the developer community.
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