IBM Releases 500 Software Patents Post: 60193

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Special Forums News, Links, Events and Announcements IBM Releases 500 Software Patents Post 60193 by Neo on Wednesday 12th of January 2005 05:18:32 PM

01-12-2005

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Big corporations generally do not donate intellectural property for altrustic reasons, they do it for tax relief, often in ways that are questionable, from a tax and accounting perspective.

See:

http://www.ideas21.co.uk/183

and

http://www.forbes.com/2004/01/07/cz_...way_print.html

For example.

It would be interesting to see what is the tax deduction IBM takes for these patent 'donations'......

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purple-url-handler(1)						   User Commands					     purple-url-handler(1)

NAME

       purple-url-handler - Python script to handle URL with purple

SYNOPSIS

       purple-url-handler [-URL]

DESCRIPTION

       Python script to handle URL with purple.

OPTIONS

       Usage: purple-url-handler URL

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ATTRIBUTES

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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
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SEE ALSO

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NOTES

       Updated by Lei Ju, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006, 2007.

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