Microsoft/Samsung Ink Patent Deal

An anonymous reader wrote with an article at ZDNet, discussing further implications of their patent cross-licensing initiative. With options already in place with Fuji Xerox, the company is now signed up with Samsung as well. From Samsung's perspective, it is simple: these deals ensure it can sell products using Linux without facing a suit from the Redmond-based corporation. "The notion that customers and businesses need Microsoft's legal go-ahead to run Linux has been controversial for some time, with the issue rising to the surface last November after Microsoft reached an accord with Linux vendor Novell. Novell has since taken issue with Microsoft's assertion that the deal represents an acknowledgment that Linux infringes on Microsoft patents."

I'm going to start a business

[Trigun]

Where I tell people that if they give me money, I won't sue them. What a concept!

Microsoft/Samsung Ink Patent Deal

[Bloke down the pub]

Microsoft/Samsung Ink Patent Deal

They're conniving to make us pay licensing fees for "a solution or suspension of some or other pigment that [800 pages snipped for brevity] dries leaving a visible mark on paper or some similar or different substance"?

I call shenanigans, it was invented years ago. There is, quite literally, prior art!

Re:Got Permission?

[Sponge Bath]

Do I need to check with them before I use my electric toothbrush, as well?

That depends.
Does it run Linux?

Re:Got Permission?

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Do I need to check with them before I use my electric toothbrush, as well?

That depends. Does it run Linux?

No, but my toaster uses the BSD TCP/IP stack.

Re:Got Permission?

[just_another_sean]

No, but my toaster uses the BSD TCP/IP stack.

Oh well that's OK because so does Microsoft!