What does Microsoft joining the Open Invention Network mean for you? | Linux Today

What does Microsoft joining the Open Invention Network mean for you?

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Oct 11, 2018

The move opens up Microsoft’s 60,000 patents to Open Invention Network members who are using them in the Linux system. What does that mean, specifically? Read on.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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