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  Is the Microsoft-HTC patent deal more about Linux or Apple?
Time: 08:15 EST/13:15 GMT | News Source: | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

Mobile phone maker HTC has agreed to pay Microsoft an undisclosed sum to license Microsoft patented technology for use in phones running the Android operating system, Microsoft announced on April 27.

Which patents is HTC licensing specifically? The pair won’t say. But Android is a Linux-based operating system, and Microsoft has been waging a campaign to get Linux distribution vendors and their OEMs to sign intellectual property (IP) licensing pacts over the past couple of years. Among the vendors selling/embedding Linux who’ve signed patent licensing deals with Microsoft are Amazon, Linspire, Novell, TurboLinux and Xandros.

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