Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 05:03:58 +0000 (GMT)
> > 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?
Techniques like that are so old they should have lapsed a long time ago.
IBM is a large company however and like several other large US companies
they patent anything that they think they can get away with.
Alan
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