Thursday, March 24, 2005

An Industry at Risk

If you are reading this blog... Then you must almost definately be in a IT industry...
Please read this article which is against Patents... reason being.. just take a look at some of the patents that are aquired


  • IBM holds patent #4,965,765 which covers the use of different colors to distinguish the nesting level of nested expressions.

  • Patent #5,249,290 covers assignment of client requests to the server process having the least load.

  • Patent #4,941,125 covers using a digital camera in conjunction with character recognition software to store and index documents on a CD ROM.

  • # And IBM really does charge small companies 1% of royalties to license a single software patent, and 5% for its entire portfolio.

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