From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   The Open Invention Network was founded by a bunch of companies,   
   including some big ones, fed up with continual attacks on Open Source   
   software from patent trolls. Not only did they agree to cross-licence   
   all their relevant patents royalty-free, but they also collect   
   information useful in defending against patent lawsuits, such as   
   details of prior art that should render those patents invalid.   
      
   And in 2018, Microsoft shocked the world by doing a complete 180° from   
   its old “Linux is a cancer” FUD compaign, by joining the OIN and   
   adding its entire portfolio of 60,000 patents to the royalty-free   
   cross-licensing pool.   
      
      
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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