brainstorming

[Benjamin Rossen]

Brian, 

It was a coincidence, actually. I knew that IBM was coming out with this but 
had not read it yet. 

On Sunday 16 January 2005 08:57, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> 
> Ben, it can't be mere coincidence that you start this thread on the same 
> day that IBM makes its announcement of its "patents pledge":
> 
> http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/patents/pledgedpatents.pdf
> 
> And see the corresponding discussions and articles linked from slashdot, 
> osdir.com, etc. I'm not sure why IBM decided to call it a "legally-binding 
> pledge" rather than a license, but I'll call it a license for shorthand.
> 
> 
> Making sure that patent lawsuits are a mutual-assured-desctruction 
> scenario seems more useful (to me) than compelling Open Source 
> redistribution of patent-encumbered works.
> 
>   Brian
> 

This is probably the appropriate end of for thread. 

Benjamin Rossen