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"Microsoft announced today that it’s joining the Open Invention Network (OIN), an open-source patent group designed to help protect Linux from patent lawsuits. In essence, this makes the company’s library over 60,000 patents open source and available to OIN members, via ZDNet.

OIN provides a license platform for Linux for around 2,400 companies — from individual developers to huge companies like Google and IBM — and all members get access to both OIN-owned patents and cross-licenses between other OIN licensees, royalty-free."

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Microsoft sharing badly written code?

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Microsoft sharing badly written code?

My thought exactly.

My guess is that this might have something to do with Linux contributors threatening to revoke the code they've written over a new "Code of Conduct" that very specifically values a contributor's race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. over the quality of their code and can inflict punishments for anything the coders say or have ever said on social media that is not acceptable (read "politically correct") under the guidelines of the new CoC.

Just search YouTube for "Linux CoC" for loads of information and opinions on this.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/10/2018 10:51PM by Thrift Store Scott.

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Microsoft sharing badly written code?

My thought exactly.

My guess is that this might have something to do with Linux contributors threatening to revoke the code they've written over a new "Code of Conduct" that very specifically values a contributor's race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. over the quality of their code and can inflict punishments for anything the coders say or have ever said on social media that is not acceptable (read "politically correct") under the guidelines of the new CoC.

Just search YouTube for "Linux CoC" for loads of information and opinions on this.

That's pretty trippy.

1. It's a great way of having the general public correct your bad code for you.

2. It's a great way of transitioning people to a more functional Linux, so that you can:
stop manufacturing an expensive-to-maintain, full-of-security-holes OS, in order to focus on hardware and subscription software like Office, and maybe cuddly toys in the shape of a new Microsoft mascot.

I did not read the article. Are they sharing the patents (ideas) or the actual code?

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... focus on ... cuddly toys in the shape of a new Microsoft mascot.

Clippy! Now in new improved Nitinol memory wire with pre-ground ends!
"Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick"
Be the first on your block to get one!
Operators are standing by to take your order!

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