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Are you, or your company…

An Open Source advocate?
Focused on reducing risk from the threats of patent aggressors?
Committed to authentic participation in the greater Open Source ecosystem?
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To publicly demonstrate you have an Open Source strategy?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are the perfect OIN member and we invite you to seriously consider joining our patent non-aggression community.

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