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22nd May 2007 - Link Blog

Ten Reasons The World Needs Patent Covenants (via) Sun just made their OpenID patent covenant official. Simon Phipps explains why these are a Good Idea.

Posted 22nd May 2007 at 5:09 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd May 2007.

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