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IBM Drops Patent Counterclaims in SCO Case
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I doubt that IBM cares about being seen as a patent "heavy".
Everybody knows they have a huge patent portfolio -- including lots and lots of hardware patents. If you've got legitimate patents, defending them doesn't make you a heavy.
More likely than not, they've done the cost-benefit analysis and decided not to bother.
Everybody knows they have a huge patent portfolio -- including lots and lots of hardware patents. If you've got legitimate patents, defending them doesn't make you a heavy.
More likely than not, they've done the cost-benefit analysis and decided not to bother.
Also, if they won the case, what would they get out of it - bragging rights? SCO has no mo.
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There's also motivation from the other direction: being seen as a patent "heavy" could work against IBM's public image -- particularly amongst that loose non-federation known as "the Open Source community" or even more so that non-state within the stateless known as "the Free Software community".