Star Linspire, Microsoft Sign Licensing, Patent Agreement
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Jun 2007 16:04 UTC, submitted by davidiwharper
Linspire Linspire has announced an agreement to license voice-enabled instant messaging, Windows Media 10 codecs, and TrueType font technologies from Microsoft for its Linux distribution. Additionally, Microsoft will offer protection to Linspire customers against possible violations of Microsoft patents by Linux.
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RE[6]: All MS is doing.
by dylansmrjones on Fri 15th Jun 2007 12:07 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: All MS is doing. "
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That might be true, and it might not. Add to that the fact that for each BSD-user there is 10 Linux-users. If the numbers were reversed, BSD would have been killed by Microsoft.

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