True, enough. There are plenty of company's like IBM where giving up patent reve...

True, enough. There are plenty of company's like IBM where giving up patent revenue without changes to the patent system would heavily impact there profits. However, IBM has donated a fair number of patents in the past.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/technology/11soft.html

Along massive quantities of data. http://depth-first.com/articles/2011/12/15/ibm-donates-large...