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This week, <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/microsoft" target="_blank">Microsoft</a> <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-joins-open-invention-network-to-help-protect-linux-and-open-source/" target="_blank">announced</a> its decision to join the <a href="https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/" target="_blank">Open Invention Network</a> (‘OIN’) open-source patent consortium. Given Microsoft’s occasionally hostile relationship with <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/open-source" target="_blank">open source</a>, this announcement came as a surprise to many. Headlines and tweets proclaimed that <strong>Microsoft had “open sourced all its patents.”</strong>