On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:43 +0100, Jerome Alet wrote:
Hi all,
In the light of the recent BIG event of IBM patents being made available to free software developpers, I'm wondering :
- couldn't this be used by the pro-patent lobby to make software patents become a reality in Europe ?any comment ?
I see it the opposite way, anti-patent lobby can easily say: see IBM the most important patent owner and early patent adopter in the information science world has recognized that patents are effectively a threat to one of the most important way of producing software today, and because of that they released them to FS producers.
But ultimately I think that anybody can twist the meaning unless IBM explicitly tell the political reason that made them do the move.
Simo.