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Open Invention Network teams up with IBM, Linux Foundation, and Microsoft to protect open-source software from patent trolls
Open-source software — heck, all software — has been plagued by patent trolls for decades. The Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, is now expanding …
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Microsoft joins Open Invention Network and open sources its patent portfolio
Microsoft has joined the “largest patent non-aggression community in history”, the Open Invention Network (OIN), effectively open-sourcing almost its entire patent portfolio. The company has shown …
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Microsoft adds 60,000 patents to the Open Invention Network
Microsoft announced today that it’s joined open-source patent group Open Invention Network in an effort to help shield Linux and other open-source software from patent-related suits. As part of …
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Microsoft and USyd claim invention of key quantum computing component
Prototype microwave circulator next to an Australian five cent piece. A team at the University of Sydney (USyd) working with Microsoft, alongside Stanford University in the US, has announced the development of a miniaturised component touted as essential …
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