IBM Grants Universal and Perpetual Access To IP

StonyandCher writes "IBM is making it easier to utilize its patented intellectual property to implement nearly 200 standards in the SOA, Web services, security and other spaces. Under a pledge issued by the company Wednesday, IBM is granting universal and perpetual access to intellectual property that might be necessary to implement standards designed to make software interoperable. IBM will not assert any patent rights to its technologies featured in these standards. The company believes its move in this space is the largest of its kind."

Re:Good first step...

[Renegade88]

So your position is that ultimately these companies need to completely open source all their current products, release all new products as F/OSS, and move over to the certification, consulting, and training for income model, or risk extinction? Companies have to be either entirely closed or entirely open? You can't mix-and-match based on market and product? I'll let IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft know they are ultimately doomed right away! F/OSS will overcome!

Too slow!

[Mr2001]

BitTorrent has already been providing universal access to IP since 2001. Nice try, IBM!

Re:Enlighten me.

[geminidomino]

They have a patent on interfacing Javelin.Tilt() with Landscape.Windmill

Re:Good first step...

[Ant P.]

Would you think if you were a plant?