Techrights responds to people who believe that IBM should be left alone after using software patents to negotiate a competitor's departure from the market
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Thumbs up to Ubuntu for Removing a Part of MS; TurboHercules Likely a Psystar-Type MS Shell
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An analysis combining Ubuntu's relationship with Microsoft proxies such as Yahoo! search and Mono; more on how TurboHercules may be connected to Microsoft and why IBM's response was tactless
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Why I Believe IBM is Free to Sue The Pants Off TurboHercules
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It seems Groklaw will have to open a new category, answering Florian Mueller FUD.
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IBM Denies Breaking Its Open Source Promise
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The open-source software community is up in arms over claims that IBM has broken a promise by asserting its patents against an open-source project. IBM denies that it has done so.
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IBM breaks OSS patent promise, targets mainframe emulator
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IBM is threatening to pursue legal action against TurboHercules, a company that sells services relating to the open source Hercules project, an emulator that allows conventional computers with mainstream operating systems to run software that is designed for IBM System Z mainframe hardware.
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IBM uses pledged patents against open source mainframe emulator
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In 2005, IBM pledged to not use five hundred patents against open source software. In 2010, two of those patents have shown up in a letter from IBM to the makers of TurboHercules, an open source mainframe emulator
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IBM Uses Software Patents Aggressively
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New leak shows that IBM not only lobbies to keep software patents, but that it also uses them against rivals
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