What's OIN Doing While Microsoft is Siccing Patent Trolls on Azure Competitors' Customers? | Linux Today

What’s OIN Doing While Microsoft is Siccing Patent Trolls on Azure Competitors’ Customers?

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Roy Schestowitz
Mar 20, 2017

Microsoft’s patent litigation strategy has become clearer, and patents-centric efforts such as OIN offer no defence against such a strategy, which attempts to pressure everyone to flock to Microsoft for ‘protection’ (from Microsoft itself)

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Roy Schestowitz

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