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[Valorie Zimmerman <valorie-zimmerman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Frank,

Kubuntu as a team does not write software; in general we package KDE
software, and we are part of the Ubuntu project.

Thanks for asking, however Canonical and Ubuntu being involved covers us
already!

All the best,

Valorie Zimmerman, for the Kubuntu Council

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 7:28 AM Frank Casey <fcasey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Dear Ms. Zimmerman,
>
> My name is Frank Casey and I am writing to you on behalf of the Open
> Invention Network (OIN), an organization formed and funded by IBM, Red Hat,
> SUSE, Sony, NEC, Philips, Google, and Toyota to foster a safe patent
> environment for developers, users and supporters of Linux and Open Source
> based software solutions.  While doing research I learned of your
> distribution entitled *Kubuntu,* and given your focus on Linux, would
> like to invite the *Kubuntu* team to join the OIN community.
>
> We are the world's largest patent non-aggression community ever assembled
> with over 3,500 members from around the world who are invested in the
> creation, use or support of Linux and Open Source and do not want patent
> aggression to jeopardize or interfere with their work.
>
> OIN undertakes a variety of activities to protect the community from
> aggression and all of our members (small start-ups to worldwide
> corporations) pledge non-aggression to each other via free cross-licenses
> for the Linux System.  Our success is evidenced by the size and breadth of
> our community and even Microsoft, historically the biggest antagonist of
> Linux and Open Source, joined us.
>
> As we are fully funded, OIN membership is free of any fees or costs and
> you would also be joining the likes of Canonical (Ubuntu), Linux Mint,
> Mageia, Alma Linux, Manjaro, Pop! OS, KDE, Gentoo, GNOME, Slackware,
> PCLinuxOS, Huawei, SAP, Cisco Systems, Verizon, Hitachi, LG, Vodafone,
> Twitter, Facebook, Mozilla and thousands of others in supporting the
> principle of non-aggression.
>
> We would be pleased to have *Kubuntu* join our community and hope you
> will accept our invitation.  To that end, I welcome you and your team to
> visit our website at https://www.openinventionnetwork.com to learn more
> and would be glad to answer any questions you may have about us.
>
> I thank you for your time and look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Frank Casey
>
>
>
>
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>
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