May 4, 2021 — ZDNet breaks news with Shopify’s announcement the global eCommerce company is joining Open Invention Network. With eCommerce tools based around Ruby on Rails, it only made sense for Shopify to protect Linux and the rest of its Open Source Software (OSS). Shopify’s software tools are used by 1.7-million real businesses in more than 175 countries to start, grow, market and manage retail businesses. Shopify, like so many other companies, owes much of its success to OSS.