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Pro-Linux group snaps up Microsoft patents

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A pro-open-source group said on Tuesday it has acquired 22 patents recently sold by Microsoft – patents that the group said could have been used against Linux.

The Open Invention Network said that the patents were purchased from Microsoft by an entity known as the Allied Security Trust. OIN said it has now acquired the patents from AST, although it wouldn’t say how much it paid.

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