Securix, together with companies like Google, IBM, Novell, Red Hat, Sony, Philips, Canonical, Facebook and more than 700 others, joined Open Invention Network community.

OIN protects the open-source community through a patent cross-license for Linux and related open-source technologies. The license is free and available to companies, organizations, and individual developers if they agree not to assert their own patents against Linux. OIN also defends against anti-open-source patent aggression through education, reform efforts, and its own defensive patent portfolio.

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