FSF statement on Microsoft joining the Open Invention Network — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
▻https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-statement-on-microsoft-joining-the-open-invention-network
Microsoft’s announcements on October 4th and 10th, that it has joined both LOT and the Open Invention Network (OIN), are significant steps in the right direction, potentially providing respite from Microsoft’s well-known extortion of billions of dollars from free software redistributors.
These steps, though, do not by themselves fully address the problem of computational idea patents, or even Microsoft’s specific infringement claims.