John Albert Padget

Mandy

I wouldn't celrbeate quite yet. The assault on intellectual property based on claims such as the one IBM just dropped given a long history of making such claims for offensive and defensive business tactics could give way to a worse situation. Take the case of SceneCaster and the Google Warehouse. Did the contributors to the warehouse know a company would build a profitable business over their works? There is a continuum of conditions from the non-profits to the strictly for profits that should be part of a sober discussion of intellectual property. There are agreements that must be explicit and conditions set or the wholesale rape of author's works continues unabated just at the time companies such as IBM and Google are sponsoring worlds that close the doors to sharing works by applying proprietary systems to the open Internet.Good on IBM for an instance of good behavior, but this is from the company that is the MOST notorious for using its patent portfolio to muscle competitiors. If this is a cultural sea change, I am glad to see it. If it is a sop to generate publicity to assume a patina of good will then it is the kind of act that has to be factored into a complete analysis of the company's overall strategies in the business services market.Before I applaud, I think I will wait to see the end of the second act in the show.

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