techintelligence
Linspire cuts patent deal with Microsoft
Filed in archive Business News by S.M. Schrama on June 14, 2007
linspire.jpeg
Although Linspire and Microsoft met eachother in court only a few years ago over Linspire's former name, "Lindows", today the two companies are friends after a deal over patents. Novell and Xandros cut the same deal before Linspire.

  • Instant messaging — Linspire will license Microsoft's RT audio codec to promote voice-enabled interoperability between Linspire's Pidgin (formerly GAIM) instant messaging client and Microsoft's instant messaging clients for business, Microsoft Office Communicator, and, for consumers, Windows Live Messenger.

  • Digital media — Future releases of Linspire will now support the latest Windows Media 10 audio and video codecs, allowing Linspire and Microsoft Windows users to better share digital media files.

  • TrueType fonts — Linspire will license popular Microsoft TrueType fonts, including Arial, Georgia, Times New Roman, and Verdana, so Linspire users have improved experiences creating, editing, and viewing files and documents.


(Source : Linux Watch)
Interesting development. In the old days MS used to buy whatever they couldn't wi from - is this their new way of conquering the world ?
Opinions are appreciated in the comments !


Permalink: Linspire cuts patent deal with Microsoft
Tags: linspire  deal  microsoft  xandros  novell  patents  IM  messenger  video  truetype  fonts  2007  patent+deal 
Trackback: http://publish.creative-weblogging.com/publish/mt-tb.pl/75529
img Addthis img Ask img Blinklist img del.icio.us img Digg img Fark img Facebook img Google img Lycos img Ma.gnolia Add this page to Mister Wong Mr Wong img Netscape img Netvousz img Newsvine img Reddit img StumbleUpon img Slashdot img Tailrank img Technorati img Wink img Yahoo

Vote for Linspire cuts patent deal with Microsoft:

  • Currently 7.00/10
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
Rating: 7.00 out of 1 vote(s) cast.
Subscribe
Share It
Popular posts from our other blogs:
RSSrss
See all blog subscribe options
Google google
What is RSS?
Yahoo! yahoo
Addthis Subscribe using any feed reader!
Bloglines Bloglines
Newsletter

TwitterFollow us on Twitter!