Microsoft, TomTom Settle Patent Dispute

It seems that Microsoft and TomTom have settled their patent lawsuit against each other. Damn, I was looking forward to making more smartass remarks every time this suit made he news. Bummer.

As part of the deal, as TomTom will pay Microsoft for patent protection related to mapping patents and file-management patents that Microsoft claimed were infringed by TomTom's use of the Linux kernel. Microsoft will also get access to the TomTom patents that were cited in TomTom's countersuit against Microsoft, although Microsoft won't make any payment to TomTom.