http://gigaom.com/2012/08/13/the-apple-roundup-microsoft-got-ios-license-with-promise-not-to-copy/ Wed, 22 May 2013 21:24:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/08/13/the-apple-roundup-microsoft-got-ios-license-with-promise-not-to-copy/#comment-898591 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:21:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=552447#comment-898591 It is not just iOS patents. There is a broad patent licencing agreement that was made in 1998 or so, with Bill Gates head on a giant screen at Macworld. Most people only focus on the money that changed hands and not the patents, which maybe weren’t as well understood at the time.

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