Businesses using open-source projects like Kubernetes are being targeted more often by patent trolls. Now the open source ...

The Linux Foundation has launched a large campaign to snuff them out, including a partnership with Unified Patents and a ...

they are making what they call a legally binding promise not to enforce the patents against non-commercial or academic experimenters, and they will continue to open-source as much as they can.

Toyota makes a splash at CES by saying its hydrogen fuel cell patents will be open for licensing, for free, until around 2020. The move follows Tesla opening its patents up last summer. Last ...

In contrast to patent pledges like IBM’s 2005 promise not to use 500 specific patents against open source software makers, OpenAI’s is ambiguous and vague, according to MBHB partner Mike Borella.

Microsoft announced today that it's joining the Open Invention Network (OIN), an open-source patent community - basically, allowing anybody to use some 60,000 software patents that the tech titan ...

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 ...

“In open source, that’s not common ... the need for foundational crypto technology to be freely available to everyone rather than be locked in patents,” Kirupa Pushparaj, Square's head of IP and a ...

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) isn’t specifically trying to create the next social media phenomenon (but ...

T here are two sides to the software industry. One faces outwards, with whizzy products and services that bring in billions ...

Microsoft, of course, is far more accustomed to filing patent infringement lawsuits than it is to defending itself. Microsoft claims that free and/or open-source software violates 235 of its ...