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Old 03-28-2013, 02:36 PM
 
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Lets not post crap about Googles privacy issues in this thread.... (talking to the wind I know)....

It's about time a company in the industry brought this issue up. Hopefully other companies will sign on and we'll see some innovation without fear of a lawsuit.....

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When companies like Apple and Microsoft are abusing the already broken patent system and using their patents as 'weapons' against competitors Google has announced the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge. In it's pledge Google says that they will not sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked.
Google takes pledge not to sue open source software, unless first attacked | Muktware
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Old 03-28-2013, 07:07 PM
 
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This is not really new, unless it is specific to Google. Good for them, although this is very much in their interest anyway.

Several companies have in the past pooled their patents to protect OSS. See Open Invention Network and other alliances/initiatives.

Some of the patents that have been designated to the pool are significant. IBM come to mind as a company which has donated some of those.
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