Open Invention Network
| Open Invention Network | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Limited Liability Company |
| founding | November 10, 2005 |
| Seat | New York City , United States |
| management | Keith Bergelt ( CEO ) |
| Branch | software |
| Website | openinventionnetwork.com |
The Open Invention Network ( OIN ; German open innovation network ) is an industrial consortium that acquires software patents and makes them freely available to every company and every private person who agrees, no patent claims against the free and open source operating system GNU / Linux , yet to assert against any other software that is related to Linux.
The consortium was founded on November 10, 2005 by IBM , NEC , Novell , Philips , Red Hat and Sony in New York City . Former hedge fund manager Keith Bergelt has been CEO of Open Invention Network LLC since 2008 .
On March 26, 2007, Oracle joined the OIN. On August 7, 2007, Google Inc. also joined the OIN. The Document Foundation (Berlin civil law foundation and publisher of LibreOffice ) and the KDE project have also been involved since December 2010, as has the European open source software manufacturer Univention since the beginning of May 2011 . Microsoft joined in October 2018.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ OIN management
- ↑ Jens Minor: GoogleWatchBlog: Google joins Linux association OIN. Retrieved November 7, 2008 .
- ↑ http://heise.de/-1157145.html
- ↑ Univention joins the OIN. In: Heise open. Heise Verlag, May 3, 2011, accessed May 30, 2011 .
- ↑ Microsoft joins Open Invention Network to help protect Linux and open source. Accessed October 10, 2018 .