Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262800AbVAQNpQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:45:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262801AbVAQNpQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:45:16 -0500 Received: from alog0327.analogic.com ([208.224.222.103]:24448 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262800AbVAQNpK (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:45:10 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:44:32 -0500 (EST) From: linux-os Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: Linux kernel Subject: IBM Patents Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 784 Lines: 23 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 Penguin : Linux version 2.6.10 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by Dictator Bush. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/