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- From: "mag" <mag@bunuel.tii.matav.hu>
- To: Erik Josefsson <erikjosefsson@telia.com>
- Cc: Patent forum <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Re: IBM, Microsoft, BEA Snub W3C
- Date: 02 May 2003 12:47:19 +0200
2003-05-02, p keltezéssel Erik Josefsson ezt írta:
>
> On a panel of LinuxTag Stuttgart 2001, someone asked IBM patent lawyer
> Fritz Teufel something like "Would IBM sue a free software project?". I
> dont have notes of the question (sorry) but the answer was "The
> programmer is responsible. IBM would give a licence when there is public
> interest behind it".
>
> I guess IBM is defining what "public interest" is.
That is definitely an example of using patents as a regulatory device.
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