Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 14th Jan 2007 22:47 UTC, submitted by Anonymous
"When open-source developers and IBM took gambles on each other, free software showed it can flourish in the heartland of corporate computing." This is chapter 7 (free sample, so to speak) of a book on Linux and free software's rise to fame and use in the corporate world.
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RE[2]: IBM, the linux's best friend ?
by Francis Kuntz on Mon 15th Jan 2007 09:31
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How can a company owning the most patents on the earth can be a friends of open source softwares ...
Healthy patent law can be a good thing and spur innovation. Of course there are many arguments that suggest current patent law isn't all that healthy...
Although it left many people unimpressed, IBM did donate 500 patents to open source projects a few years back[1].
As an aside, I found a link by accident that shows this chapter with a different name[2] "How Big Blue fell for Linux". Perhaps it was changed in a reprint...
[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/119039/
[2] http://tinyurl.com/yxtoty