Open-source allies go on patent offensive (News.com)

[Posted August 11, 2005 by cook]

News.com covers moves by Red Hat and OSDL to build open-source patent repositories. "Red Hat will finance outside programmers' efforts to obtain patents that may be used freely by open-source developers, the top Linux seller said Tuesday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here. At the same time, the Open Source Developer Labs launched a patent commons project, which will provide a central list of patents that have been donated to the collaborative programming community."

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