Amazon Pays Microsoft Tax for Kindle’s Linux

Tech News World has an article entitled Amazon Ponies Up to Microsoft for Linux Rights, which highlights Microsoft‘s gall and clout in charging Amazon a fee for using free and open source software, Linux. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) have entered into a patent cross-licensing deal to share patent rights.

For comparison, Barnes and Noble’s nook uses the open source operating system, Android, and Apple‘s iPad uses iPhone software for its OS.

• Barnes and Noble’s iPad App Brings Nook to iPad
• Nook Now Available at Best Buy
• Nook vs. iPad e-Reader
• Ebook: Survival of the Fittest
• Nook Adding Android Web Browser, Games