December 6, 2022 — Amazon.com, Inc. is among the Big Five American Information Technology (IT) companies in the world, one of the largest digital retail & eCommerce platforms in the world & the 6th largest Open Source corporation in the world. The FastMode covers one of today’s top headlines — Amazon joins OIN, the organization formed to safeguard Open Source Software (OSS) and the largest patent non-aggression community in history, with nearly 4,000 worldwide members. Nithya Ruff, Director for Amazon’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO), shares insights about this strategic & mission-critical decision: At Amazon, we are constantly looking for ways to innovate on behalf of our customers by investing in systems and technologies that allow us to better serve and understand them. Linux and open source are essential to many of our customers and key driver of innovation across Amazon. We are proud to support a broad range of open source projects, foundations, and partners, and we are committed to the long-term success and sustainability of source as a whole. By joining OIN, we are continuing to strengthen open source communities and helping to ensure technologies like Linux remain thriving and accessible to everyone.”