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The Open Invention Network Has Become a Guard Dog of (Some) Patent Trolls and It Misrepresents Us Under the Guise of “Open Source”

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Roy Schestowitz
Nov 18, 2019

The Open Invention Network (OIN), in collaboration with Fraunhfer, is promoting software patents and all sorts of other nonsense as part of open standards in a new paper sponsored by the EU and edited by the former EPO Chief Economist Nikolaus Thumm (not Battistelli’s choice); this is another reminder of the fact that OIN misrepresents Free/Open Source software (FOSS) developers and their interests
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Roy Schestowitz

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