Cloud Computing: LG Signs Android Patent Deal with Microsoft

LG Electronics Thursday became the latest Android and Chrome OS peddler to bow to Microsoft’s patent claims and sign a "patent agreement" that Microsoft said "provides broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for LG’s tablets, mobile phones and other consumer devices running the Android or Chrome OS Platform."

Usually Microsoft brags that it’s getting paid for privilege. This time it didn’t a word about royalties, merely noting that the "contents of the agreement have not been disclosed," describing the deal as expanding on a pre-existing agreement. That license covered Linux and, as FOSS Patents points out, Android is a Linux fork. So, the new arrangement is assumed to be royalty-bearing…