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The Big Blue Yonder; By giving away hundreds of its patents, IBM has turned a philosophical movement into a tangible business strategy. The company with the most to lose is Microsoft. A close-up look at the software war.

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Byline: Karen Lowry Miller

By the time Sam Palmisano took over as CEO of IBM in 2002, the technology giant had become the undisputed king of patents. Each year it files more than 3,000 patents, more than any other company. And yet IBM had also begun to present a very different face to the world--as the leading proponent of so-called open-source software, a communal body of code that individuals and companies develop at their own expense and then share with each other freely. How far should IBM go in sharing its software innovations? Would the company also be giving away its technological advantage? Likewise, would clinging to its treasure chest of patents make it ...

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