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- From: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- To: Patent forum <patents@aful.org>, Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ca>, Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
- Cc: seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis@tinet.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Re: IBM, Microsoft, BEA Snub W3C
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 15:44:06 -0400 (EDT)
>The isuue is not that IBM applies for patents, or uses them wisely,
>defensively or agressively.
There is an article in The March 17, 1997 issue of Business Week
magazine (I think that is the issue date - might be 17 March 1999)
on why IBM has been the most aggressive asserter of software patents.
They probably have made more off their software patents than everyone
else together.
Greg Aharonian
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