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I'm not sure it's fair to attack IBM for trying to patent out of office emails. If they had attempted to use the patent against others, I would be immensely cr
by arcanus 10y ago
I'm not sure it's fair to attack IBM for trying to patent out of office emails.
If they had attempted to use the patent against others, I would be immensely critical. But it strikes me as more likely that the patent was a defense measure to protect the company against trolls.
While donating the patent sounds nice, isn't it absolutely the same outcome if a company keeps the patent and does not litigate with it?
- pjc50 10y agoYou can't know that they won't litigate it, only that they haven't. And it's always possible for that policy to change, or the patent to be sold, or even for IBM to go bankrupt and the patents sold to trolls to pay the creditors.