Patent promises

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Patent promises from friendly companies can be good sources of wordings. Patent promises from opponents are usually written to be meaningless.

[edit] Company patent promises

Note: these are not examples of good promises, it's just a list which might be informative or which might help explain the issues involved.

• Red Hat's (see also: Red Hat)
• Blackboard's (see also: Blackboard inc.)
• Google's (see also: Google)
• Sun's OpenDocument statement (see also: Sun Microsystems)
• Microsoft Open Specification Promise
• Nokia's - only the Linux kernel, only "official versions" (whatever they are), and Nokia reserves the right to cancel the promise for any future versions. (see also: Nokia)

[edit] Related pages on en.swpat.org

• free software - not strictly related, but many of these promises are limited to free software