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Embrace, extend, and protect? Microsoft joins the Open Invention Network to ‘protect Linux and open source’

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Liam Dawe
Oct 11, 2018

In a move that’s going to raise a lot of eyebrows, Microsoft has joined the Open Invention Network to ‘protect Linux and other important open source workloads from patent assertions’.

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Liam Dawe

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