Amazon and Microsoft sign agreement to exchange intellectual property. This is a good way for the online merchant to protect themselves from potential lawsuits from Redmond. This is really a difficult to imagine the strategy that is emerging between the two groups. Amazon benefit does the agreement to use Microsoft technologies? Is this a way to Redmond to pave the market eBooks to approach the arrival of the Apple iPad?
Against all expectations, Microsoft has announced they have signed a cross licensing agreement with Amazon. This agreement will allow both companies access to their respective patent portfolios on a number of products and technologies including the popular Kindle reader digital books from Amazon.
The statement did not detail the contents of the agreement or its limits. But we also learned that components for proprietary software and open source operating in the Kindle, and the use of Linux servers from Amazon. Finally, the agreement implies that the company headed by Jeff Bezos will provide financial compensation to the undisclosed amount to that of Steve Ballmer.
Remember that Linux accuses Microsoft of violating some of its intellectual property (up to 235 patents) and threatens to prosecute companies that use open source solutions (and who, in response, urged the creation of the Open Invention Network). Microsoft intends to clarify a legal limbo in its ecosystem with its licensing program.
A program which joined more than 600 companies including Apple, HP, LG Electronics, Novell, Samsung … And now Amazon . The e-tailer has obviously not want to incur the wrath of Microsoft as legal TomTom has been able to live in early 2009 (following the use of Microsoft technologies FAT supported by Linux) that prompted the editor of navigation solution assisted in turn signed with Redmond.