Synergy Research and Canalys, technology market research firms, report that the cloud infrastructure market grew by $50 billion in 2021, to more than $170 billion in revenue. A substantial amount of plumbing in private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure that generated these revenues was built on open source projects and code.

Sardina Systems, a leading European developer and vendor of cloud software, has joined the Open Invention Network, as a community member. With locations in the UK, Germany, Luxembourg, Ukraine and Russia, Sardina Systems leverages OpenStack, Kubernetes and Ceph open-source technologies to deliver a cloud infrastructure with efficient, flexible and scalable operations that driver improved performance.

“In today’s technological environment, we all rely upon OSS infrastructure that we can build upon without risk from patent threats,” said Keith Bergelt, CEO of Open Invention Network. “We are pleased that Sardina Systems has joined OIN and committed to patent non-aggression in core open source.”

By joining the Open Invention Network, Sardina Systems says it is publicly demonstrating its commitment to open source and patent non-aggression. OIN’s mission is to preserve innovation through patent freedom for its participants in essential open source software projects. Today, with more than 3,600 members, OIN is the largest patent non-aggression community in history.

“Joining OIN emphasizes our commitment to developing and distributing open source technology. Thanks to OIN expertise, software companies can mitigate the global patent risk to open source software like FishOS for all the market players – developers, vendors, customers and end-users,” said Kenneth Tan, CEO of Sardina Systems.

Patent non-aggression in core technologies is a cultural norm within OSS, so that the litmus test for authentic behavior in the OSS community includes OIN membership. Open to all, OIN’s community practices patent non-aggression in core Linux and adjacent open source technologies by cross-licensing Linux System patents to one another on a royalty-free basis. Patents owned by Open Invention Network are similarly licensed royalty-free to any organization that agrees not to assert its patents against the Linux System.

 

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