skepticism (Score 1)

| "The others include Microsoft, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Intel and Red Hat." I would be skeptical to believe these efforts are nothing more than good faith on IBM's part to "aid" the patent system. Granted, IBM undergoes high pressure to reform patent practice (as the leading filer), I tend to believe these efforts are primarily designed merely to redirect business strategy toward the "new software structure" of high ad revenues and rapid generation of web content. NOTICE that the companies named in this article are more/less precisely the giants being toppled by newcomers, i.e. google, linux, etc who stand to profit most from crude business method type patenting. just some thoughts