[DennisP]

"By joining the Open Invention Network, Microsoft is offering its entire patent portfolio to all of the open-source patent consortium's members."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-its-ent...

Apple had "1,996 total patents granted between July 1, 2019 and June 1, 2020, more than any other company in Silicon Valley."

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/07/27/top-of-t...

[entropy1111]

My recollection from previous OIN threads was that it came with a lot of caveats. I can't comment any further from lack of knowledge about patents and its subtleties. Would love to see an analysis of what really happened in practice since they did that.