Three of the world’s biggest electronics companies – IBM, Sony and Philips – have joined forces with the two largest Linux software distributors to create a company for sharing Linux patents, royalty-free. The Open Invention Network, as the new firm unveiled Thursday is known, could mark a breakthrough in resolving how to protect vendors and customers from patent royalty disputes resulting from freely shared Linux code.
As long as Sony keeps there rootkits to themselves.
nah, I would love them to give me one. I miss things like that since I dumped Windows
Yep sony WE WILL BE WATCHING… most of us here actualy care about whats happening in the OS/hardware/software/patent world
That was gonna be my exact comment!
It would seem this company is set up to get a pool of ‘open source inventions’. Either that, or Philips, who does bugger all in the PC department, plans on using Linux for a lot of new embedded devices in the short future. Sony does laptops, but also not very interested in software you’d think, so they’re probably thinking in the same direction.
I hope we can see some Vaio laptops soon with linux pre-installed instead of windows.