Amazon Pays Microsoft Tax for Kindle’s Linux
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 eBook Readers | Amazon > Android > Apple > iPad > Microsoft > News > Nook
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.
