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A Way to Hammer at Windows
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Although IBM's open-source support is no money-maker, it does serve as a deft weapon to undermine Microsoft's markets. Big Blue collects about $1 billion a year in licensing fees from its hoard of 40,000 patents. So it came as quite a surprise to some on Jan. 11 when IBM pledged to make 500 of its software patents, valued at about $10 million, freely available to open-source software projects such as the Linux operating system and the Apache Web page server software. Why would IBM allow others to use its intellectual property free of charge?
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