Cisco Tandberg Open Source Dust Up
December 4, 2010
Cisco has been pushing, quite aggressively, into different markets. The company’s financial outlook needs a helper app. I listened to the Cisco open source talk about Lucene/Solr in October 2010 at the Lucene Revolution Conference. The information was interesting and did not equip me to determine if “Tandberg Illustrates Stupidity of Software Patent Policy” is accurate or not. The write up asserts that Tandberg, a unit of Cisco, has “invented” a video processing method. An open source developers suggests that Tandberg may have embraced open source with more familiarity than some expect.
I am really not concerned with this matter. What interests me is the possibility that other alleged open source friendly outfits will try to patent open source innovations. I keep having dreams about open source becoming the walled garden of tomorrow.
Worth watching in my opinion because Cisco Tandberg may be quite clever with the help of patent regulations of course.
Stephen E Arnold, December 4, 2010
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