IBM Releases 500 Software Patents Post: 60194

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Special Forums News, Links, Events and Announcements IBM Releases 500 Software Patents Post 60194 by locustfurnace on Wednesday 12th of January 2005 07:51:07 PM

01-12-2005

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Who are we supposed to then feel sorry for? The IRS- for lost "revenues," or for the Big Company's?
Personally, I feel if the Big Company's do this for tax relief, thats great news for them. They spent the money developing the patents, the IRS did none except stick out their palms demanding people cough up money.

IBM has some 40k patents, them kicking out a mere 500, whether or not it will advance open source may be a good thing. IBM has been a strong supporter of LINUX development for sometime. It has definitely helped attract more eyeballs.

Big Blue, not the company it once was, still has set a strong historic mark on computing. They could be much more of a M$ than M$, if they had not released the PC architecture. Without IBM doing what they had, M$ would not be where they are today, since M$ only develops software.

Had Apple followed IBM, they may have gained a much stronger footing then they have today.

I wonder if the releasing of patents is a rub to SCO.

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hpionibmblade

hpionIBMblade(1)						      OpenHPI							  hpionIBMblade(1)

NAME

       hpionIBMblade - An openhpi sample application that shows how two (2) openhpi plugins can be used to display and manage resources of an IBM
       Blade with Basedboard Management Controller (BMC).

SYNOPSIS

       hpionIBMblade [ -x ]

DESCRIPTION

	hpionIBMblade shows how two (2) openhpi plugins can be used to display
       and manage resources of an IBM Blade with Basedboard Management Controller (BMC).

	Both the ipmi and snmp_bc plugin have the same IBM Blade target.  Resources from
       both plugins are combined to show a complete view of the IBM Blade.

	@@ WARNING @@ RESTRICTIONS @@ WARNING @@ RESTRICTIONS @@ WARNING @@ RESTRICTIONS @@

	This client application is designed to run **only** inband on an IBM Blade with Basedboard
       Management Controller (BMC)

OPTIONS

	 -x  Display debug messages.

SAMPLE CONFIGURATION FILE

	   handler libipmi	  {
	       entity_root = "{SYSTEM_CHASSIS,2}"
	       name = "smi"
	       addr = 0
	   }

	   handler libsnmp_bc {
	       host = "bc.mm.ip.address"
	       version = "3"
	       community = "bc_community"
	       entity_root = "{SYSTEM_CHASSIS,1}"
	       security_name = "myid"
	       passphrase = "mypassword"
	       security_level = "authNoPriv"
	       auth_type = "MD5"
	   }

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AUTHORS

       Authors of this man page:

	Peter D Phan (pdphan@users.sourceforge.net)

2.14.1								    2009-11-23							  hpionIBMblade(1)