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[News] Embedded Debian Might Be Joining Open Invention Network

  • Subject: [News] Embedded Debian Might Be Joining Open Invention Network
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 18:43:44 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Joining Open Invention Network

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| OIN is the open innovation network, a patent 
| defence group set up in 2005 by IBM, 
| phillips, Red Hat, Novell, NEC and Sony to 
| create a patent pool for defending Linux. 
| 
| They are now keen to have proper free-
| software people and projects join up, 
| especially in the Embedded space which is 
| shaping up for a big fight over the next few 
| years as the incumbents realise Linux has 
| eaten their businesses. This could easily get 
| dirty (i.e. have incumbent vendors resort to 
| their patent portfolios to hang on past their 
| natural time - (in the way that SCO did, 
| although they tried to use copyright rather 
| than patents).
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2010/05/msg00064.html


Related:

Debian looking at development freeze by March

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| The Debian GNU/Linux project is looking at a
| development freeze in March next year for its
| next release, Squeeze, the project leader
| Steve McIntyre says.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29541/1090/
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