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Open Invention Network LLC, founded in 2005, is an intellectual property management company that supports the development of patented, integrated, Linux-based systems. The firm's methodology streamlines collaborative software development processes. Third-party companies, institutions, and individual developers are encouraged to use and repackage Open Invention Network's royalty-free components. Software is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The firm holds over 10 patents on error handling, software development, byte code compilation, trading document processing server, and other Linux-based technologies and methodologies. Open Invention Network investors include IBM (R), NEC, Novell, Philips Electronics, Red Hat, and Sony.
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