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 | News @ 2007-08-13Google has increased its support for the open-source Linux operating system by becoming Open Invention Network's first end-user licensee. The OIN was founded to protect Linux against patent infringement attacks from software giants such as Microsoft, and Google should bring it quite a bit of attention. Chris DiBona, the open-source programs manager at Goggle stated that "ever since Google got its start, Linux has given us the power and flexibility we need to serve millions of users around the world." Companies like Google, and the more than 100 firms that have partnered with OIN have provided enough money for OIN to have already spent $15 million in open source patent porfolios, and according to OIN, backers have funded him "to buy patents ad infinitum" and the amount he's spent so far hasn't even put a dent in the amount of money he has been provided with. |
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