Interview with Dr. Karl-Heinz Strassemeyer

Q: How does IBM deal with software patents when IBM is developing Linux?

2002-03-02, Linux Forum 2002 in Denmark.

At the Linux Forum 2002 Dr. Karl-Heinz Strassemeyer from IBM in Böblingen, Germany, gave an interview to Ole Tange, SSLUG. The interview was published with live streaming on Internet and can be found in the archive on sslug.mmmanager.org. The interview is 11 minutes long. The original interview in RealPlayer can be found at http://sslug.mmmanager.org/.

In the Open Source community Dr. Karl-Heinz Strassemeyer is probably best known as the man who was responsible for the S/390 patch for the Linux kernel.

You can find more about software patents in Europe at ffii.org and EuroLinux.org. Mere om softwarepatenter på dansk: www.softwarepatenter.dk.

• A clarified transcript of the interview (text only)
• 11 min. Ogg Vorbis file of the interview (3 MB)

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For more questions: Contact Ole Tange.

Ole Tange and Dr. Karl-Heinz Strassemeyer
Photo: Hans Schou. License: OPL

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