Another amazing turn in In re Bilski on patenting abstract and mathematical methods for solving problems in which some time is a discussion of software patents, has revealed an unexpected «friend» Court. IBM today volunteered to present his vision, stressing the tremendous experience and long-term presence in the field of software development. According to IBM patents only help promote open source technology. They create the preconditions for brainstorming new approaches to solving the known problems. Because of the current patent system, we see such rapid growth in the number of opensource projects, and hence the possibility of patenting software should be retained in its unaltered form.

There is a clearly erroneous interpretation of the facts, monstrously distorts the very concept of free development. Based on the position of IBM repeatedly re-inventing the wheel should be much more productive in terms of technology, and the joint work of all interested parties on its improvement. Nevertheless, no matter how absurd such a statement was uttered from the mouth of IBM, it can have quite serious implications for the open community. However, to permit the court to understand the degree of sincerity «friendly» comments IBM and look at the real facts from the work of patents on software (via ets.org):

- Because of ambiguities in the question of patenting Moonlight can not be included in the distribution Fedora Linux.
- Developer VirtualDub was forced to stop supporting the format of ASF
- Plug-in for GIMP Image Mosaic ceased to exist.
- Red Hat removed the functional autocomplete table OpenOffice.
- The case against Microsoft TomTom forced to limit the functionality of the filesystem VFAT

Full list of such cases going to visit Free software projects harmed by software patents and will be used in court hearings as an opposing positions IBM.