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Intel, Microsoft Collaborate with Universities on Parallel Computing Initiative
3/18/2008
However, Berkeley's Patterson downplayed the significance of any patents coming out of the research and focused instead on papers and open source software that will be produced. "I've never filed a patent. I've been at Berkeley 30 years, and it's not what I see as one of the critical pieces for the success of technology transfer. The important thing, what we really will do, is do papers, and those we get to publish without restriction. And of course software, which is [going to be made available] as open source: We're going to use the BSD license. So I think that's going to really make it possible to have a real impact with what we're doing, and that's we're excited to be working on it."
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