Open Source Patent Policy

Andrew Raff
February 25, 2005

At ACS Blog, Sean Kellogg writes about The Open Source Approach to Patent Policy: "The past months have witnessed amazing developments in the area of software patents. First IBM, and then Sun Microsystems, announced they were granting the rights to more than 2000 patents to open source developers for use in software development. The announcement comes at a critical moment in Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) history, with some companies in active litigation over the Linux operating system and others issuing veiled threats."

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