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“Open Invention Network was formed in 2005 with several
commercial software giants like IBM, Novell, Phillips, Red Hat,
NEC, Sony becoming founding members and investing substantially in
the growth of the organization. The latest to seek support from the
fraternity partners is Google, on the lines of Ubuntu Open source
software promoter Canonical. Yahoo became an entrant, late last
year.“In the first few months of this year, the membership has
increased with corporate licences numbering 334 and OpenStack to
walking into the industry endorsed organization. Older members
include the likes of Facebook, HP, Fujitisu, RackSpace,
Juniper.“With close to 300 patents, growing list of more than 2,000
agreements with licensees and members for member-users to use all
Linux based software without fear of being penalized for
infringement(however unintentional).”
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