Google's Open Usage Commons Encounters Opposition

I Programmer

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Google's Open Usage Commons Encounters Opposition

I Programmer

Published 13 Jul 2020

Google has announced Open Usage Commons as an organization to manage trademarks of its open source projects, inviting other open source projects to join. However, the inclusion of Istio as one of the three inaugural projects has prompted immediate criticism from IBM. The Linux Foundation has also raised concerns.

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