Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux | Date | Sat, 19 Dec 1998 21:57:58 -0500 | From | C S Hendrix <> |
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In message <199812200211.VAA04581@saturn.cs.uml.edu>, "Albert D. Cahalan" write s:
> The problem: if IBM supplies 24x7 support for Linux, they will want > to tweak the code to help their customers. No problem, and it falls > under the GPL of course. What if IBM uses an IBM patent? It would be > very bad (from their point of view) if that somehow gave everyone > rights to the patent.
Doesn't IBM own patents on things like shared copy-on-write and other techniques used in the Linux kernel?
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