On 15 March 2010 12:11, John Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > This is interesting, where do we stand with this? > > http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100222/1816398260.shtml > > Once this starts, will it affect Linux everywhere? Will we end up paying > for the privilege?
Nowhere does the original source say that the deal was specifically for linux - Amazon and MS probably have lots of patents they want to cross-license, and it just so happens that some linux related ones fall into that. It doesn't look to me like linux was a primary target in this... Anton -- Anton Piatek email: [email protected] blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965 A358 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
