Consistent with OIN’s mission to provide freedom of action in Linux, we believe it is important to reinforce the principle that Intellectual Property (IP) enforcement should be conducted in a manner that is rational and in consonance with the collaborative process that occurs in Open Source Software (OSS). We encourage all of our members to provide their unequivocal support for the GPL Cooperation Commitment.  

We see incredible value in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities. Our work in collecting, preserving and making source code available to developers, academics and government entities, will enable developers to continue to innovate. We are very pleased for OIN’s sponsorship and its support in maintaining the technical and scientific knowledge that may be lost without preservation and may be further useful to developers from an intellectual property perspective.  

By fostering the largest patent non-aggression community in history, OIN has protected core Linux and a broad array of FOSS technologies from patent aggression. We have worked together for the past 15 years, with the goal that FOSS would grow unimpeded by patent risks, and we have largely succeeded.  OIN has made a transformational difference.  I look forward to working with Keith and OIN as it creatively faces new challenges in the next decade.