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Google Joins Linux-Oriented OIN

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Google loves Linux, and as long as you share its enthusiasm, the search giant is willing to give you a hand.  That’s the gist, anyway, of a new agreement that makes Google a licensee of the Open Invention Network (OIN).

For the specifics, we can turn to Chris DiBona, Google’s Open Source Programs Manager.  “All OIN licensees, including participants such as IBM, Oracle, NEC and Sony, agree to cross-license their Linux-related patents to the others free of charge,” he explains on the

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