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forteller (forteller@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Oct-2018 11:54:35 EDT forteller

Wow! Microsoft is opening up 60 000 patents for free use by anyone in the Open Invention Network (OIN).
They've also joined LOT, an anti-patent troll group.
"as late as 2014, Microsoft made approximately $3.4 billion from its Android patents."
This is amazing! As @kaniini says, we still need to be vigilant about MS, but there's no denying this is a huge deal! https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-its-entire-patent-portfolio/ #patents
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  UPDATED: By joining the Open Invention Network, Microsoft is offering its entire patent portfolio to all of the open-source patent consortium's members.

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