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Microsoft/Samsung Ink Patent Deal
An anonymous reader wrote with an article at ZDNet, discussing further implications of their patent cross-licensing initiative. With options already in place with Fuji Xerox, the company is now signed up with Samsung as well. From Samsung's perspective, it is simple: these deals ensure it can sell products using Linux without facing a suit from the Redmond-based corporation. "The notion that customers and businesses need Microsoft's legal go-ahead to run Linux has been controversial for some time, with the issue rising to the surface last November after Microsoft reached an accord with Linux vendor Novell. Novell has since taken issue with Microsoft's assertion that the deal represents an acknowledgment that Linux infringes on Microsoft patents."
Where I tell people that if they give me money, I won't sue them. What a concept!
I call shenanigans, it was invented years ago. There is, quite literally, prior art!
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
Do I need to check with them before I use my electric toothbrush, as well?
That depends.
Does it run Linux?
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
No, but my toaster uses the BSD TCP/IP stack.
Oh well that's OK because so does Microsoft!
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