{"id":23053,"date":"2018-10-11T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T21:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23053"},"modified":"2018-10-11T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T21:02:15","slug":"microsoft-opens-its-patent-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/11\/microsoft-opens-its-patent-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Opens Its Patent Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natfriedman\/status\/1050035501569167362\">Nat Friedman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natfriedman\/status\/1050035501569167362\">\n<p>Microsoft is pledging our massive patent portfolio &#x2013; over 60,000 patents &#x2013; to Linux and open source by joining OIN this morning. If you're looking for signs that we are serious about being the world's largest open source company, look no further.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/microsoft-joins-open-invention-network-to-help-protect-linux-and-open-source\/\">Erich Andersen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/microsoft-joins-open-invention-network-to-help-protect-linux-and-open-source\/\">\n<p>We know Microsoft&rsquo;s decision to join OIN may be viewed as surprising to some; it is no secret that there has been friction in the past between Microsoft and the open source community over the issue of patents. For others who have followed our evolution, we hope this announcement will be viewed as the next logical step for a company that is listening to customers and developers and is firmly committed to Linux and other open source programs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nat Friedman: Microsoft is pledging our massive patent portfolio &#x2013; over 60,000 patents &#x2013; to Linux and open source by joining OIN this morning. If you're looking for signs that we are serious about being the world's largest open source company, look no further. Erich Andersen: We know Microsoft&rsquo;s decision to join OIN may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-10-11T21:02:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"de33d63d-5535-4d70-ac54-72a788cc2ae5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-10-11T21:02:28Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A3jPWPVU1TXCsVHKniMwq5Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[448,37,40],"class_list":["post-23053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linux","tag-microsoft","tag-patents"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23054,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23053\/revisions\/23054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}