] I.B.M. plans to announce today that it is contributing
] more than half a million lines of its software code,
] valued at $85 million, to an open source software group.
]
] The move is one of the largest transfers ever of
] proprietary code to free software, and I.B.M. is making
] the code contribution to try to help make it easier and
] more appealing for software developers to write
] applications in the Java programming language.