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Open source fights back: 'We won't get patent-trolled again'
Businesses using open-source projects like Kubernetes are being targeted more often by patent trolls. Now the open source community is launching a counter-offensive and looking for volunteers.
sjvn/ZDNETSALT LAKE CITY - If your business recently posted a job ad on LinkedIn, you may have received -- in addition to the usual influx of resumes and cover letters -- a very unexpected response: the threat of a lawsuit from Edge Networking Systems LLC. CNCF announced the Cloud Native Heroes Challenge, a patent troll bounty program in which cloud-native developers and technologists can earn swag and win prizes. This could be open-source documentation (including release notes), published standards or specifications, product manuals, articles, blogs, books, or any publicly available information.
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