Whats the deal with Microsofts open-source friendly patents?
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At a keynote speech at Open Source Summit Europe in Scotland, Keith Bergelt, OINs CEO, answered some of these questions.Later, in an interview with Bergelt and the OIN Linux System Definition director Mirko Boehm, more questions were answered.During a Open Source Summit Europe keynote, Stephen Walli, Microsofts principal program manager for Azure, explained:(Image: OIN) What were seeing now is "a new world order with smart, creative people creating innovation at Microsoft with open source," Bergelt said.That said, the benefits of joining are also clear: Theres safety in numbers, and with Microsoft on board, the OIN is now unquestionably the largest patent protection consortium of them all.
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