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TomTom joins Linux-patentgroup
By Fabio on Tuesday March 24th 2009 03:55 | Category: Hardware
TomTom, the Dutch navigation company sued by Microsoft joined the Open Invention Network, a group of companies sharing patents and making these public for anyone that promisses never to file patentclaims againt Linux.
The Open Invention Network criticized the earlier legal action Microsoft filed against TomTom at the end of February, and claimed that this shows that the software giant has a hostile attitude towards Linux and the open source community. Microsoft last week in turn by TomTom was indicted, has said that the patent claim not the start of a broad legal campaign against Linux has to be understood.
The patent says the group membership of TomTom welcome. The Dutch company, that its navigation systems using the Linux kernel, hopes the membership a positive contribution to the development of Linux and the underlying community, where everyone has benefited from TomTom. The Open Invention Network has over 275 patents for free use and has collected next to TomTom support including Red Hat, Novell, Google, Philips and Sony.
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