Re: [Patents] IBM Patent release

[Nari Lee <narlee@utu.fi>]

Hello Jonas Maebe
Thank you for your comment.

What I want to know more is how useful these sofwares that are covered by 
these released patents are to the actual developement of Open Source Software 
community, technically. I am also curious whethere there are any that could 
be any of these patents related to W3C standards or other so called open 
standards? 
Any idea?

Nari
----- Original Message -----
From: Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe@ugent.be>
Date: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:31 am
Subject: Re: [Patents] IBM Patent release

> 
> On 24 jan 2005, at 09:23, Nari Lee wrote:
> 
> > I have received the following info.
> > http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/patents/pledgedpatents.pdf
> > Anybody on this list knows or care to comment on the utility of 
> any of 
> > these patents
> 
> They're useful because they clearly admit those are software 
> patents, 
> and at least 44 of them are granted in Europe as well 
> (http://kwiki.ffii.org/IbmEp0501En). Nevertheless, all of those 
> would 
> be considered "computer-implemented inventions which make a 
> technical 
> contribution" under the proposed Commission and Council texts.
> 
> > or why IBM is doing this "really"?
> 
> PR.
> 
> 
> Jonas
> 
> 
>