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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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FS_WSCELL(1)						       AFS Command Reference						      FS_WSCELL(1)

NAME

       fs_wscell - Returns the name of the cell to which a machine belongs

SYNOPSIS

       fs wscell [-help]

       fs ws [-h]

DESCRIPTION

       The fs wscell command returns the name of the local machine's home cell.

OPTIONS

       -help
	   Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.

OUTPUT

       The output displays the contents of the local /etc/openafs/ThisCell file, in the format

	  This workstation belongs to cell '<cellname>'

EXAMPLES

       The following example results when the fs wscell is issued on a machine in the State University cell:

	  % fs wscell
	  This workstation belongs to cell 'stateu.edu'

PRIVILEGE REQUIRED

       None

SEE ALSO

       fs_whereis(1), fs_whichcell(1)

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