IBM have opened up 500 patents
13-January-2005
have announced that they have opened up 500 of their patents. Of course they'll
still have plenty left. In the last year they have registered 3,248 patents (!)
the 12th year in succession that they have had more patents than anyone else.
The company say that they are committed to creating a "patent commons".
Others might suspect that they want to make patents appear more acceptable, and
so protect their principal income source. Time will tell! In the meantime I guess it is a sign that the people are becoming more aware of the social impact of patents, otherwise IBM wouldn't bother. The text of the pledge
and the list of patents is available here.
CALIBRE
10-January-2005
The project acdtions will focus on organized research and collaboration with industry, and seek bring open source more into the mainstream. CALIBRE was launched on Sept. 10 at University College Cork.
Report on the impact of software patents on ICT in education
17-December-2004
Riina Vuorikari and Karl Sarnow of European Schoolnet have produced a paper
called "Software Patents - a potential hindrance of ICT in education".
You can download it here.
Linux in schools in Jordan
15-December-2004
A news item on IBM's work porting
the EduWave K-12 eLearning platform to Linux in Jordan. It's not clear what
the license is on EduWave, but at least it suggests there is considerable interest
in Linux.
SIGOSSEE Project Workshop and Public Seminar
03-September-2004
The next SIGOSSEE Project Workshop will be Barcelona on November 1st.
This will be followed by a Public Seminar on November 2nd
Agendas for both events will be published here in mid september. If you
would like more information in the meantime, please contact Dai
Griffiths at david.griffiths@upf.edu.
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