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Five Linux Companies Buy Software Patents

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the giving-back dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In order to protect themselves against patent grabbing 'trolls,' major Linux companies are buying software patents through a nonprofit company called Open Invention Network. This nonprofit company will then offer royalty-free licenses to companies and individuals that agreed not to assert their own patents."

2 of 89 comments (clear)

  1. dupe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Here comes dupe of the day..

  2. fi8s7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    startling turn every day...Like Filed countIersuit, would be a bad