Microsoft donates 60,000 patents to open source as it joins Open Invention Network

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Microsoft is to donate 60,000 patents to open source after announcing plans to join the Open Invention Network, a ‘patent non-aggression pact' that counts IBM, Novell and Red Hat among its founding...

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