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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Getty ImagesMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella has embraced more open-source initiatives for the company.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Microsoft is joining the Open Invention Network (OIN), a patent community that protects Linux and other open source software programs.</li><li>The company acknowledged this decision may be viewed as a surprise, as Microsoft had a long history of competing with open-source initiatives and making billions from its patents.</li><li>Microsoft has embraced open source initiatives in more recent years and plans to bring 60,000 patents to OIN.</li></ul>Microsoft announced today that it's <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-joins-open-invention-network-to-help-protect-linux-and-open-source/">joining the Open Invention Network</a> (OIN), an open-source patent community - basically, allowing anybody to use some <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-joins-open-invention-network-to-help-protect-linux-and-open-source/">60,000 software patents</a> that the tech titan holds, without having to pay any kind of licensing fee. The move comes as a huge boon to the world of open source software, which is written collaboratively, freely available and can be redistributed and modified by anybody. Occasionally, these open source software projects have fallen afoul of megacorps like Microsoft, which use their patents as leverage to sue for violating their intellectual property. What OIN aims to do is protect Linux and other large open-source software projects from this kind of litigation, as well as help companies manage patent risks. So by joining the OIN, Microsoft is giving a big signal to the world of open source software that it's willing to play nicely - something that Microsoft acknowledges may be a little surprising, given the history."We know Microsoft's decision to join OIN may be viewed as surprising to some, as it is no secret that there has been friction in the past between Microsoft and the open source community over the issue of patents," Microsoft Deputy General Counsel Erich Andersen said in a <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-joins-open-invention-network-to-help-protect-linux-and-open-source/">blog post</a>. For years, Microsoft battled with open-source initiatives - <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/linux-foundation-praises-microsoft-github-acquisition-2018-6">especially Linux</a>. Former chief executive Steve Ballmer had <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/r-former-microsoft-ceo-ballmer-does-about-face-on-linux-technology-2016-3">previously called</a> Linux a "cancer" and accused it of destroying intellectual property. And as late as 2014, Microsoft made <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/biggest-patent-win-ever-microsofts-billion-dollar-a-year-samsung-deal/">about $3.4 billion</a> from its Android-related patents. Still, Microsoft has spent the past few years <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-microsoft-should-buy-github-2018-6">embracing open source</a>, like with its recent $7.5 billion <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-buys-github-for-2018-6">purchase of GitHub</a> -- although this was originally met with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-github-developers-atlassian-gitlab-2018-6">skepticism from developers</a>. Microsoft has now become the <a href="https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-top-contributors-to-github-2017-be98ab854e87">biggest contributor</a> to open source initiatives on GitHub, with 1,300 employees actively pushing code to 825 top repositories on GitHub in 2017. Microsoft has also open sourced major projects such as .NET Core, TypeScript, VS Code, and Powershell, maintaining that developing through the open source process will increase innovation and that there's more to gain by opening up patents, rather than making money off of them. Now, Microsoft plans to bring over 60,000 issued patents to OIN."For others who have followed our evolution as a company, we hope this will be viewed as the next logical step for a company that is listening to its customers and is firmly committed to Linux and other open source programs," Andersen said. OIN now has more than 2,650 members, including Google, Red Hat and IBM. It cross-licenses Linux System patents between member companies on a royalty-free basis, and patents owned by OIN are licensed royalty-free to any organization that agrees not to use the patents to harm the open source software world. "Open source development continues to expand into new products and markets to create unrivaled levels of innovation. Through its participation in OIN, Microsoft is explicitly acknowledging the importance of open source software to its future growth," said Keith Bergelt, CEO of OIN, <a href="https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/pressrelease_details/?id=89">in a statement</a>. Get the latest Microsoft stock price<a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/MSFT-Quote"> here.</a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-watch-tips-tricks-2018-9">11 Apple Watch tips and tricks</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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The targeted reporters were Emily Baker-White, who wrote for BuzzFeed and is now at Forbes, and Cristina Criddle of the Financial Times, ByteDance said, though it declined to identify other affected TikTok users. ByteDance employees accessed the data as part of an unsuccessful effort to investigate leaks of company information and were aiming to identify potential connections between two journalists and company employees, revealed the email from ByteDance general counsel <keyword id="15860720" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="erich-andersen" source="Orion">Erich Andersen</keyword>. All four employees involved in the scheme were fired, the company said, correcting an earlier statement that one of the four had resigned. Two of those employees were working in China and two were in the United States, reported The <keyword id="53556" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="new-york-times" source="Orion">New York Times</keyword>. ByteDance said it had restructured its internal audit and risk team and had removed any access to US data from that department. Over the summer, a few employees on a ByteDance team responsible for monitoring employee conduct tried to find the sources of suspected leaks of internal conversations and business documents to journalists. In doing so, the employees gained access to the IP addresses and other data of two reporters and a small number of people connected to the reporters via their TikTok accounts. They were trying to determine if those individuals were within proximity of ByteDance employees, according to the company, which added that the efforts failed to find any leaks, reported The New York Times. The investigation was initiated after an article was published by Forbes, and the inquiry confirms part of that report and highlights the privacy and security risks associated with TikTok that US lawmakers, state governors and the <keyword id="6354862" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="trump" source="Orion">Trump</keyword> and <keyword id="60973" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="biden" source="Orion">Biden</keyword> administrations have raised for more than two years. More than a dozen states have banned TikTok from government-issued devices, and the company has been in prolonged negotiations with the administration on security and privacy measures that would block any potential access of US user data by ByteDance and the Chinese government, reported NYT. Taiwan is investigating Douyin International, the Chinese twin of hugely popular TikTok, for allegedly illegally expanding social media business in the island nation, reported Voice of America (VOA). On Monday (December 19), the Mainland Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan, confirmed in a local media report the allegations made by a political affairs member of the Executive Yuan that the Mainland Affairs Council took note of the Chinese company ByteDance's opening of a branch in Taiwan, further accusing it of business expansion and transferring cases involving related operators to criminal offences to the judicial authorities for investigation. App developer ByteDance, headquartered in Beijing, was suspected of running a subsidiary in contravention of a law that restricts a variety of Chinese firms, including social media companies, from operating offices in Taiwan. 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