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Based in New York City , the company was founded on November 10 , 2005 by IBM , Novell , Philips , Red Hat , and Sony . Gerald Rosenthal is the chief executive of the company. Rosenthal had previously worked at IBM, as vice president of Intellectual Property and Licensing {Link without Title} . The list of key applications considered by OIN, according to Mark H. Webbink, includes Apache, Eclipse, Evolution, Fedora Directory Server, Firefox, GIMP, GNOME, KDE, Mono, Mozilla, MySQL, Nautilus, OpenLDAP, OpenOffice.org, Perl, PostgreSQL, Python, Samba, SELinux, Sendmail, and Thunderbird. OIN has the Commerce One patents that cover web services, which potentially threaten anyone who uses web services. OIN's founders intend for these patents to encourage others to join, and to discourage legal threats against Linux and Linux-related applications. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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