Recentelijk heeft ook Google zich hierbij aangesloten:The Open Invention Network (OIN) is a company that acquires patents and offer them royalty free "to any company, institution or individual that agrees not to assert its patents against the Linux operating system or certain Linux-related applications".
Based in New York City, the company was founded on November 10, 2005 by IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat, and Sony. Gerald Rosenthal is the chief executive of the company. Rosenthal had previously worked at IBM, as vice president of Intellectual Property and Licensing. [Wikipedia]
[...] we feel a strong responsibility to the Linux community, and we’re always looking for creative ways to put our resources in the hands of Linux developers. That’s why today we became a licensee of the Open Invention Network (OIN), an innovative patent-sharing organization founded to create a legally protected environment for anyone who works with Linux. [...]zo lezen we in
Official Google Blog: Joining OIN
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