Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio

Oct 10, 2018, 10:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

By joining the Open Invention Network, Microsoft is offering its entire patent portfolio -- with the legacy exception of its Windows and desktop application code -- to all of the open-source patent consortium's members.

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