[OT-Slashdot] McAfee Granted Far-Reaching Spam-Control Patent

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Matthew Miller wrote:

> I think what we need is for someone like IBM (actually, forget "someone
> like" -- IBM'll do) to do this with a broad swath of _their_ patents....

We're not an IBM, but Red Hat is trying.  Look at our
patent promise page:

	http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html

Now if other open source companies joined in ...

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