| Europe Casts Wary Eye On IBM's Open-Source Patent Largesse |
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IBM's pledge to offer free and open access to 500 key open-source software patents reverberated throughout the software industry Tuesday and is likely to have an impact on the ongoing debate over software patents that has been raging in Europe.
In announcing the move Tuesday, IBM said: "The pledge is applicable to any individual, community, or company working on or using software that meets the Open Source Initiative (OSI) definition of open-source software now or in the future." The announcement came the same day that the U.S. Patent Office announced that IBM had filed 3,248 patents last year--more than any other company.
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