Report: Microsoft and I-O Data Sign Linux Patent Deal

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 4, 2010 2:50 PM EDT
LinuxPlanet; By Stuart Johnston
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Just a week and a half after signing a patent licensing deal with Amazon covering the e-tailer's use of Linux, Microsoft announced it has inked another Linux patent licensing agreement, this time with a Japanese hardware company. Neither Microsoft nor the Japanese company, I-O Data Device, revealed details of the agreement. However, in a short joint statement, the two said the deal "will provide I-O Data's customers with patent coverage for their use of I-O Data's products running Linux and other related open source software."

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