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Old 04-08-2010
Why I Believe IBM is Free to Sue The Pants Off TurboHercules
It seems Groklaw will have to open a new category, answering Florian Mueller FUD.As you know he recently claimed that IBM had violated its public pledge not to sue Linux for patent infringement. I think he's mistaken. IBM, when it announced the patent pledge, specifically reserved the right to defend itself from attack:
"IBM has no intention of asserting its patent portfolio against the Linux kernel, unless of course we are forced to defend ourselves," said Nick Donofrio, senior vice president for technology and manufacturing, drawing applause in a speech at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
And in the TurboHercules story, who is suing whom? It's not IBM, folks. The complaint against IBM was filed with the EU Commission by TurboHercules. At that exact moment, did they not take themselves out from under the patent pledge's safety umbrella?
So be it.

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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"
	   }

SEE ALSO

AUTHORS

       Authors of this man page:

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

2.14.1								    2009-11-23							  hpionIBMblade(1)