On 07/03/2010 04:51 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Friday 02 July 2010 16:20:43 Balaji Damodaran wrote: >> It was surprising that no one is flaming IBM yet. They're not so >> friendly to opensource either >> > pure FUD - IBM has made available a *huge* amount of code as open source and > there are *huge* resources built and maintained by IBM to support open source.
It is not as black and white however. For example, they hold the largest number of software patents in the world and continue to strongly lobby for expanding the scope of patenting in the world. They even argued to the Supreme court in US that software patents benefit free and open source software. http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-176819/ibm-says-software-patents-drive-oss-development Rahul _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
