ipod patent screwup

This is just too funny. Apple first takes it on the chin when the whole world learns exactly how easily MacOS 10 can run on regular PCs Now, they have to cough up a license fee to Microsoft because they should have known better..

APPLE'S IPOD PATENT GAFFE

Computer firm Apple may have to pay Microsoft £6 for each iPod it sells after a huge licensing lapse.

Lawyers at Bill Gates' firm filed a patent for technology behind the hugely successful digital music player two months before Apple.

The US Patent Office has ruled that Microsoft has the right to charge competitors a licence fee for each iPod sold. [...]