The Big Blue Yonder

Posted by gryphen on Dec 4, 2005 8:18 AM EDT
MSNBC.com; By By Karen Lowry Miller
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By the time Sam Palmisano took over as CEO of IBM in 2002, the technology giant had become the undisputed king of patents. Each year it files more than 3,000 patents, more than any other company. And yet IBM had also begun to present a very different face to the world—as the leading proponent of so-called open-source software, a communal body of code that individuals and companies develop at their own expense and then share with each other freely.

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