This is a letter dated March 11, 2010, from IBM's VP/CTO for the mainframe business to TurboHercules SAS, a French open source startup whose founder started the Hercules open source project 11 years ago. IBM breaks the taboo and asserts patents against Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Two of the patents IBM points to in this letter are also on a list of 500 patents that IBM pledged in 2005 never to assert against open source. For further information, please check the FOSS Patents blog (http://fosspatents.blogspot.com).
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IBM letter dated 11 March 2010 to TurboHercules SAS
This is a letter dated March 11, 2010, from IBM's VP/CTO for the mainframe business to TurboHercules SAS, a French open source startup whose founder started the Hercules open source project …