Engaged in and open Source codeOsrm, an American company that provides intellectual property-related insurance and consulting services, revealed that the company will provide insurance to compensate for copyright and patent-related risks arising from the use of Linux.
According to relevant sources, the Linux operating system is suspected of infringing as many as 283 intellectual property rights, and 98 patents are held by Linux's allies, it is a big competitor of IBM, HP, Intel, and Linux. Osrm warns companies that use Linux operating system products that may be plagued by millions of dollars worth of litigation at any time. Osrm plans to provide Linux companies with insurance services exempt from patent litigation starting in May. Osrm will be charged based on 3% of the amount of insurance, of which the maximum amount of insurance is 5 million US dollars, the customer needs to pay a maximum of 0.15 million US dollars of insurance.
From: China Business News
