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The patent tax

The patent tax

Posted Apr 19, 2007 13:11 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: The patent tax by landley
Parent article: The patent tax

Microsoft has paid to license MP3 playing.

Sadly for them, it wasn't good enough, and they had to pay some 1,500,000,000 Dollars for a different MP3 patent license.


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