D-Link walowa mu Open Invention Network (OIN), bungwe lodzipereka kuteteza chilengedwe cha Linux ku zonena za patent. Zikudziwika kuti zoposa 70% ya ma D-Link networking ndi zinthu zoyankhulirana zimayambira pogwiritsa ntchito mapulogalamu otsegula. Kampaniyo ikupitilizabe kulimbikitsa mapulogalamu otseguka komanso ufulu wa patent, ndipo yadzipereka kuthandiza gulu la OIN kulimbikitsa zatsopano.
Mamembala a OIN avomereza kuti asanene zonena za patent ndipo amalola mwaulere kugwiritsa ntchito matekinoloje ovomerezeka pama projekiti okhudzana ndi chilengedwe cha Linux. Mamembala a OIN akuphatikiza makampani, madera, ndi mabungwe opitilira 3300 omwe asayina pangano logawira ziphaso. Mwa omwe atenga nawo gawo pa OIN, kuwonetsetsa kupangidwa kwa dziwe loteteza Linux, ndi makampani monga Google, IBM, NEC, Toyota, Renault, SUSE, Philips, Red Hat, Alibaba, HP, AT&T, Juniper, Facebook, Cisco, Casio, Huawei, Fujitsu, Sony ndi Microsoft.
Makampani omwe amasaina panganoli amapeza mwayi wopeza ma patent omwe ali ndi OIN posinthana ndi udindo wokana kutsatira malamulo ogwiritsira ntchito matekinoloje omwe amagwiritsidwa ntchito mu Linux ecosystem. Kuphatikizirapo ngati gawo la kujowina OIN, Microsoft idasamutsira kwa omwe adatenga nawo gawo ku OIN ufulu wogwiritsa ntchito ma patent ake opitilira 60, ndikulonjeza kuti sadzawagwiritsa ntchito motsutsana ndi Linux ndi pulogalamu yotseguka.
Mgwirizano wapakati pa omwe atenga nawo gawo ku OIN umagwira ntchito pazogawitsa zomwe zimagwera pansi pa tanthauzo la dongosolo la Linux ("Linux System"). Mndandandawo uli ndi mapaketi a 3393, kuphatikiza kernel ya Linux, nsanja ya Android, KVM, Git, nginx, Apache Hadoop, CMake, PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, Lua, LLVM, OpenJDK, WebKit, KDE, GNOME, QEMU, Firefox, LibreOffice, Qt, systemd, X.Org, Wayland, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc. Kuphatikiza pa maudindo osachita nkhanza, pofuna chitetezo chowonjezera, OIN yapanga dziwe la patent, lomwe limaphatikizapo ma patent okhudzana ndi Linux ogulidwa kapena operekedwa ndi otenga nawo mbali.
Phukusi la patent la OIN limaphatikizapo ma patent opitilira 1300. Mwa zina, OIN ili ndi gulu la ma patent omwe ali ndi mawu oyamba aukadaulo opangira zinthu zapaintaneti, zomwe zimayimira kuwonekera kwa machitidwe monga ASP kuchokera ku Microsoft, JSP kuchokera ku Sun/Oracle ndi PHP. Chinanso chothandizira kwambiri chinali kupezeka mu 2009 kwa ma Patent 22 a Microsoft omwe anali atagulitsidwa kale ku AST consortium ngati ma patent omwe amaphimba zinthu "zotsegula". Onse otenga nawo gawo ku OIN ali ndi mwayi wogwiritsa ntchito ma patent awa kwaulere. Kutsimikizika kwa mgwirizano wa OIN kunatsimikiziridwa ndi chigamulo cha Dipatimenti Yachilungamo ya ku United States, yomwe inkafuna kuti zofuna za OIN ziziganiziridwa potsatira ndondomeko yogulitsa ma Patent a Novell.
Source: opennet.ru