Thanks to all of you who supported our Call to Action & submitted comments to the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) regarding its proposed rule changes. The proposed rules contradict the intentions of the America Invents Act (AIA), would slow global innovation, and promote increased Non-Practicing Entity (NPE) litigation. Because of your efforts, the USPTO has a lot to consider, and the issue has received quite a bit of media coverage.
The U.S. White House Office of the National Cyber Director released a Request for Information (RFI) inviting public comments on areas of long-term focus and prioritization for Open Source Software (OSS) security. We encourage you to submit your comments at www.regulations.gov by October 9th.
Open Source supports 27% of the United Kingdom's tech sector, contributing an estimated £13.59 billion in 2022, according to research by OpenUK in its Phase Two, Part 1 "Show Us the Money" report. Read More+
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed Open Source Software (OSS) to pave the way for new quantum technology discoveries expected to fundamentally change health, communication, defense & energy, among others.Read More+
Open Source is making its way into Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) school curricula. Bittle X — a palm-sized, Open Source programmable, bionic robot dog — responds to voice commands & performs over 35 predefined actions. These capabilities are typically limited to luxury robots, but Petoi’s technology is making it accessible to everyone.Read More+
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) plans to introduce an Open Source product authentication platform by year-end to trace products throughout the supply chain. The platform will help combat the €412 billion (USD $450 billion) a year global trade in counterfeit goods.
Several companies — including Big Tech hardware manufacturers— are supporting an emerging Open Source movement to ensure Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are affordable & accessible.Read More+
The Chinese Academy of Sciences unveils Xiangshan — a new high-performance processor chip — & Aolai — a new Operating System (OS) — based on RISC-V, the popular Open Source chip design project.Read More+
Industry leaders have launched the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project to accelerate Open Source Software (OSS) development for RISC-V architecture. RISE will provide commercial-ready software for RISC-V cores in mobile, consumer electronics, data centers & and automotive industries. OIN founding members Google & Red Hat serve on the project’s governing board.
DINOv2 could revolutionize computer vision by identifying individual objects inside images, video frames & other visual inputs from an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model developed by Meta.
Microsoft unveils a new 13-billion parameter poweredOpen Source Artificial Intelligence (AI) model called Orca, which learns by emulating the reasoning of larger Language Learning Models (LLM) like GPT-4. The company is also making it easier for businesses to include AI in their applications with its introduction of Copilot Chat.
As concern about security risk continues, Open Source Software (OSS) developers have created an Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Scorecard to evaluate Open Source projects for risks through automated checks.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) was born from Open Source Software (OSS). But the free software & Open Source licenses are not a good fit for emerging Large Language Models (LLM) & datasets fueling AI’s OSS. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) & other leaders are working on combining AI & Open Source licenses that make sense for both.Read More+
The Forrester Wave™ Software Composition Analysis Q2 2023 recognizes OIN member, Sonatype,as anOpen Source platform leader among top vendors for its differentiated innovation strategy.
The world’s largest Open Source company & an OIN founding member — Red Hat — is changing the game in the multi-cloud space.Read More+
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Analog Devices, Inc.(ADI) — a global, high-performance semiconductor leader — bridges the physical & digital worlds by combining analog, digital & software technologies that are rapidly advancing digitized factories, mobility, and healthcare devices; combatting climate change & connecting humans around the world.Read More+
Created in 1922, BBC is not only the world’s oldest national broadcaster, but is also the largest broadcast news organization. It maintains 50 foreign news bureaus, has more than 250 global news correspondents, and provides news and analysis in more than 40 languages.
Our CEO, Keith Begelt, will deliver "Standing Successfully Against Patent Threat to Kubernetes, CNCF Projects & Beyond" at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenSource Summit China 2023 will be held September 26-28th in Shanghai, China. Registration is open.
Register now & join us at the 11th annual All Things Open 2023 conference on October 15-17th in Raleigh, NC.
The 8th annual Open Source in Finance Forum — which will take place on November 1st in New York City. Early-bird registration ends August 18th.
5 out of 10 of the commonly used data analytic tools are Open Source, including 2 – Python & Apache Spark — that are protected by OIN’s Linux System definition! Read More +
4 of the Top 7 patent filers in China are OIN community members — Haier, Huawei, Oppo & Tencent — according to IAM.
All 6 of the world’s Top 6 holders of patents & patent applications in Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Natural Language Understanding (NLU) & Natural Language Generation (NLG) are OIN community members, according to a Proactive Patents study. These include Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft & Salesforce.
