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Microsoft licences patents in open source U-turn

By Staff Writer

Oct 12 2018 5:14AM

Joins IP-sharing group the Open Invention Network Redmond.

Microsoft licences patents in open source U-turn

Microsoft has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), an open source patent group aimed at helping protect Linux from patent legal troubles. The move will see Redmond make its portfolio of over 60,000 patents open source and available to other OIN members. OIN comprises nearly 2,700 companies ...

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