Hercules (IBM emulator) under threat?

[Brian Wheeler]

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 12:43 -0600, Eric Smith wrote:
> The TurboHercules people wrote a snotty letter to IBM along 
> the lines of "nyah, nyah, we can use your processor architecture because 
> it isn't patented", and IBM pointed out that they do in fact have a 
> bunch of patents on it, which TurboHercules *might* be infringing.

And I think this is the key here.  As soon as IBM replied it got covered
on a pile of open source websites as "IBM hates open source" which
seemed a bit fishy considering how much money they make from it...