Google Partners With OIN For Linux

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 7, 2007 @04:20AM from the circling-the-wagons dept.

lymeca writes "Groklaw reports that Google has become the Open Invention Network's first end-user licensee. The OIN was established by companies such as IBM, Red Hat, and somewhat ironically Novell to accumulate patents and license them royalty-free to any company promising not to leverage their own patent portfolio against key applications available on GNU/Linux, including many GNU projects as well as Linux itself. Google's support bolsters the OIN's effectiveness as a shield against patent attacks against GNU/Linux and many popular applications that run on it."

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Re:All-out attack on my cynicism? by CompSci101 · 2007-08-07 05:25 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Are you sure it's in the cockles of your heart?

Is it possibly below the cockles? In the sub-cockle area, perhaps?

Maybe the liver or the kidneys?

The colon?

Maybe we'll never know...

C

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