Open Invention Network, the Linux-based patent community, exceeds 3k licensees

Thanks to the Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, Linux and related open-source technologies have become mostly free of these expensive entanglements. Absent the now 3,000 strong member community of patent non-aggression that Keith Bergelt and his team at OIN have painstakingly built over the last dozen or so years, the level of open-source software innovation and unprecedented adoption rates could simply not have been achieved.” By preventing patent aggression against Linux and other free and open source software, OIN has protected our entire software ecology of research, development and commercial utilization based on sharing.

Source: www.zdnet.com