In 2009, ____ Announced That It Would Donate Some 3,000

question 44

Multiple Choice

In 2009, ____ announced that it would donate some 3,000 patents for free use by developers to help them innovate and build new hardware and software. The announcement represented a major shift in this firm's intellectual property strategy and was meant to encourage other patent holders to donate their own intellectual property.

• A) IBM
• B) Microsoft
• C) Oracle
• D) SAP

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Definitions:

Impeached

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Watergate

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Busing Issue

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