Lawsuit Raises Questions about Open Invention Network, Linux Foundation

Posted by henke54 on Aug 19, 2010 8:03 AM EDT
itworld.com/comments; By Florian Mueller
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The OIN's definition of "the Linux System" is controlled only by its six member companies although it also defines the scope of the license agreement between all supporters including licensees (not members) Oracle and Google. I have pointed out the problems with that arbitrary, constantly changing definition (it's simply a web page and the OIN can remove or add whatever it wants, whenever, without any objective criteria for that) in this blog posting. If you want to jump right to my suggestions for how the OIN's definition of "the Linux System" could be improved, you can go right here. If you read those suggestions, think of Oracle vs. Google. Any one of my four alternative suggestions would fix the problem for Dalvik and then Oracle wouldn't be able to sue Google.

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