[Freegis-list] IBM software patents to be freely available from now

[Roger Longhorn]

IBM software patents to be freely available from now
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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.

<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

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I wonder if any apply to GI/GIS?

RAL


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