[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“On March 27, Oracle and the Open Invention Network (OIN) will
announce that Oracle will become an OIN licensee. By doing this,
Oracle opens the doors to making some of its patents available
royalty-free to any company, institution, or individual that agrees
not to assert its patents against Linux.“OIN members–which currently include IBM, NEC, Novell, Philips,
Red Hat, and Sony–agree to assign software patents that might
affect Linux to the OIN. These patents can then be used by anyone
in Linux without having to pay any royalty…”