Microsoft riles open-source advocates with Amazon deal
As part of the deal Amazon will pay Microsoft an undisclosed sum, and grant the software giant access to some of its Kindle patent portfolio.
Microsoft has long maintained that free and open-source software violates 235 of its patents. It's already used this fact to coax companies including Novell, HP and TomTom into signing patent agreements.
The deal has already stirred up open-source advocates. "If the strategy isn't to create uncertainty around Linux, it's hard to say what it is," said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation.
"Companies reach broad cross-license agreements all the time, never disclose the patents involved and don’t often issue press releases about it.
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This is racketeering and someone should report this. Microsoft reportedly sued Melco to sign that last deal.