Microsoft Signs Linux Patent Agreement With I-O Data

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Staff Writer

05 March, 2010

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Our Comments

Microsoft has been pretty much mum about what patents the open source community have been infringing. Yet, it must have disclosed these to Samsung, Amazon and the likes for them to write a big fat check for the Redmond giant. Let's see what happens next.

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