Daimler joins Linux's Open Invention Network patent-protection group | Linux Today

Daimler joins Linux’s Open Invention Network patent-protection group

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Mar 17, 2017

When you think of Linux and open-source companies, the automobile industry is not the first business to spring to mind. But maybe it should be. Daimler, Mercedes-Benz‘s parent company, has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), the Linux and open-source non-aggression patent consortium.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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