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<font face="arial" size=2>IBM software patents to be freely available
from now<br>
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In New York, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has
planned to announce that it is making 500 of its software patents freely
available to anyone working on open source projects such as Linux
operating system.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.i4donline.net/news1.asp?fol_name=O_Source&file_name=src54">http://www.i4donline.net/news1.asp?fol_name=O_Source&file_name=src54</a><br><br>
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I wonder if any apply to GI/GIS?<br><br>
RAL<br><br>
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Roger A. Longhorn<br>
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