Google Partners With OIN For Linux

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:Please Stop Using "GNU/Linux"

[flyingfsck]

Hmm, nope. Linux is only a tiny little part of a typical system. The largest part by far is GCC, which is arguably the most complex software project in the world. Therefore names like GNU/VxWorks, GNU/BSD and GNU/Linux are good names and give credit where it is due.