> > Doesn't IBM own patents on things like shared copy-on-write and other
> > techniques used in the Linux kernel?
>
> Techniques like that are so old they should have lapsed a long time ago.
I thought about that, but didn't know when that particular technique
was patented.
> IBM is a large company however and like several other large US companies
> they patent anything that they think they can get away with.
Well, I'm glad to know that no other countries have companies that
do that... :/
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