September 12, 2023 — As a community, nearly 4,000 OIN members practice patent non-aggression in core Linux and adjacent Open Source technologies by cross-licensing Linux System patents to one another on a royalty-free basis. Financial IT shares the news that NatWest — a banking leader in delivering digital-based financial solutions throughout the U.K. & Ireland — is moving the financial services industry toward collaboration through Open Source and FDC3 standards and joins OIN as part of its strategy to support the organization’s mission to protect Open Source Software (OSS) from patent aggression.