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Amazon Ponies Up to Microsoft for Linux Rights
Microsoft and Amazon have entered into a patent cross-licensing deal that covers, among other things, Amazon's Kindle and its use of Linux-based servers. The agreement calls for Amazon to pay Microsoft an undisclosed amount of money. Microsoft has forged similar deals with other companies that market Linux or use it in their own operations, raising hackles in the FOSS community. The latest deal renews questions about Microsoft's intentions. At one time, it openly opposed open source, but in recent years, Microsoft has come to adopt a far more pragmatic approach that's typified by such cross-licensing deals, said Laura DiDio, principal of ITIC.
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Google's Android code deleted from Linux kernel
After removing Google's Android driver code from the Linux kernel, Novell Fellow and Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has argued that the mobile OS is incompatible with the project's main tree. Kroah-Hartman deleted the Android drivers on December 11 - Android code is no more as of version 2.6.33 of the kernel release - and yesterday, with a post to his personal blog, he explained the move in detail.
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Sold out: Microsoft's Linux business is booming
Last Updated on Saturday, 06 February 2010 04:46
The SD Times reports that Microsoft has sold nearly all of its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) support coupons. Microsoft purchased the $240 million worth of coupons from Novell as part of patent indemnification deal. According to Microsoft, a total of 475 customers have used an undisclosed number of the coupons. Based on those figures, each of these customers has bought, on average, just over half a million dollars worth of coupons.
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Symbian OS Takes on Android, Linux in Massive Open Source Move
Last Updated on Saturday, 06 February 2010 04:45
In a dramatic strategic move, the Symbian Foundation has made source code for the world’s most widely used mobile OS completely free and completely open. In addition, the Foundation says devices for the North American market — the only developed market Symbian hasn’t cracked — are on their way soon, with a partnership with Qualcomm Inc. helping to raise the platform’s visibility in the big domestic CDMA carriers like Verizon Wireless and Sprint-Nextel Corp..
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Ubuntu Firefox shuns Google for Yahoo! search
The next release of Ubuntu will scrap Google as the default search engine on its Firefox browser in favor of Yahoo!, thanks to a new revenue-sharing deal between Yahoo! and commercial Ubuntu backer Canonical. With regulators set to approve Yahoo!'s search pact with Microsoft, this means that Redmond will power the future of Firefox on Ubuntu, a combination with decidedly anti-Redmond connotations. The ultimate irony is that Microsoft will essentially be paying people to build a Linux distro.
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