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22 April 2020CopyrightSarah Morgan

Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft join Open COVID Pledge amid pandemic

The “ Open COVID Pledge”, an initiative urging companies to free their IP to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, has attracted several technology innovators following  Intel’s lead.

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