IBM Gives Access to IP
OpinionWire Articles
Teresa Jones - Published 20/07/2007
IBM announced last week that it will grant ‘universal and perpetual access’ to some of its Intellectual Property (IP), particularly that which may be relevant when implementing some interoperability standards. This contrasts with a recent OpinionWire article from my colleague Michael Azoff – entitled “Microsoft’s actions on free open source software are revealed” – where Microsoft was shown to be persuading corporate users of certain Free Open Source Software (FOSS) to pay a licence fee for its use, whic…
