OIN Gets More Patents to Protect Linux Environment (Groklaw)
Groklaw reports
that the Open Invention Network has bought some new patents, with the
express purpose of protecting Linux. "
Anyone can license them royalty-free, so long as they agree not to assert patents against "the Linux environment." These three are added to the 39 valuable web services patents that OIN got from Commerce One last December, and there are two more patents announced that have issued from that purchase."
Posted May 25, 2006 18:28 UTC (Thu)
by jfj (guest, #37917)
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Meanwhile, back in EU, there are developers who do not recognize any authority in the US patent system.
The objection with OIN is that it accepts patents as something de facto which is already the law. And it seems that open source developers should support software patents "because now we have OIN", and "we must support OIN" and consequently we accept that software patents apply because otherwise OIN is nothing!OIN Gets More Patents to Protect Linux Environment (Groklaw)