so whos been following on the recent HUUUGE news of IBM releasing 500 of their patents to open source??? U havent? where the hell have u been??? Not interested? tough! your gonna have to listen! Seriously the reason you should read on is becuase i believe this will come to affect all of you in one way of the other..
I felt the news of IBM going Patently Open Source was one of thosse pieces of news that blow up in furutre..like the news in about 1980 of Bill convincing IBM to retain rights to MS-DOS. We all know where that ended up.
So why do i feel it is so ground breaking..well, IBM releasing 500 of its patents is like Coke releasing like 2(out of who knows how many) ingredients/portions of its syrup! I mean they both rely on both means of intellectual property protection to make the billions that they do. IBM generated about $1 bill last year in revenues from licensing their patents. These guys are a patent factory..forget all the Computer services and consultancy mumbo jumbo. The article explains it very well, i suggest you edify yourelves..
The key arguments are:
- do software patents encourage innovation due to the huge economic value they bring through licensing?
-or do software patents suffocate innovation, by roadblocking the open source development drive?
So how will it affect you? Dont know yet, just certain that community centered develoment will prevail over a purely economically driven maendeleos. Pharmacuetical companies pay cloose attention - you are next to be hit with the open souce tsunami!
Maoni?
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