{"id":5173,"date":"2012-07-25T17:04:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T22:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2012-10-03T15:35:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T20:35:32","slug":"microsoft-inks-patent-deal-with-service-provider-using-linux-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5173","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft inks patent deal with service provider using Linux servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For the past couple of years, Microsoft has been on a tear of signing up Android and Chome OS device makers to license publicly unspecified Microsoft patents that Microsoft claims are infringed upon by Google&#8217;s operating systems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/microsoft-inks-patent-deal-with-service-provider-using-linux-servers-7000001498\/\">Microsoft inks patent deal with service provider using Linux servers | ZDNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2010, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/microsoft\/amazon-becomes-the-latest-company-using-linux-to-pay-microsoft-for-patent-deal\/5346\">Amazon.com signed a patent-licensing deal with Microsoft involving Linux<\/a> (upon which the Kindle e-reader is based). Novell, TomTom, Fuji Xerox and Samsung also have signed Linux-focused patent deals with Microsoft. But Amdocs isn&#8217;t selling Linux-based hardware; it is just running Linux on servers in its own datacenters (best I can tell).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past couple of years, Microsoft has been on a tear of signing up Android and Chome OS device makers to license publicly unspecified Microsoft patents that Microsoft claims are infringed upon by Google&#8217;s operating systems. via Microsoft inks &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5173\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,50,307,874],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-linux","tag-microsoft","tag-service-provider","tag-software-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6913,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions\/6913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}