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Philips shares Linux patents, royalty-free

Posted by dave on · 6 comments
People's Daily Online; By People's Daily Online 		Mail this story
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Philips Electronics China Group announced Wednesday that the company, together with Sony, IBM, Red Hat and Novell, has decided to join funds to create a joint venture-- the Open Invention Network (OIN), to purchase core patents of Linux operation system and offer them, free of charge, to any institutions or individuals. The effort is meant to aid the advancement of Linux and break the global dominance of Windows by Microsoft.

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Comments (6)

Do the players make anyone else uncomfortable?

jimf ·
I just hope that this is handled with a very neutral trust.

WTF are "core patents of Linux??"

tuxchick ·
Anyone have a guess?
jimf ·
Well, that was the other question ;-)
tuxchick ·
Someone set us up the bomb.
jimf ·
Linux in the same sentence with patents? And, then a whole string of the usual suspects? I don't know exactly what, but, some kind of a hijack atempt is going on. Doesn't sound like anything good.
tadelste ·
I think that's why Ricky Stallman kept wanting to call it GNU/Linux - think?

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