[Sussex] Breaking Patent News

[Steve Dobson]

All

In case you haven't heard IBM is announcing that they will be opening up
their patent portfolio to the F/OSS community[1].  Currently 500 are
being made available, and more maybe added later.  On the whole I see
this as a good step forward in the fight against IP rights and the 

Steve

[1]
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050110235654673
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/patents/pledgedpatents.pdf