Jbrodkin writes "Facebook, HP, Rackspace, Juniper, Fujitsu and dozens of other organizations have joined a group community hall a defensive patent notebook to protect Linux-using members from undeveloped lawsuits. The Open Invention Network (OIN) — founded in 2005 by IBM, NEC, Novell, Phillips, Red Hat and Sony — has hiv 300 Linux-related patents and licenses to 2,000 in total in a bid to protect the Linux association from intellectual acreage lawsuits. The group added 74 new members this year and is giving a pre-eminence role to Google, which is fighting lawsuits targeting Linux-based Android."

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