Amazon pays Microsoft for Linux

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 24, 2010 2:20 PM EDT
Computworld; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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What was Jeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO, thinking? Amazon just signed a patent cross-licensing deal that pays Microsoft intellectual property fees for, among other things, patents that cover Amazon's Linux-based Kindle e-reader and its Linux servers. Too bad Microsoft has never, ever been able to show that its patents cover anything to do with Linux. Microsoft claims that Linux and other open-source programs violate its patent rights. They've been making those claims for years. What's always been missing is proof.

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