[couchand]

Sounds like they avoided paying licensing fees by not paying licensing fees and then acting surprised when called on it.

https://archive.ph/20120919002551/http://www.windowsitpro.co...

[dale_glass]

Wasn't it that the Spyglass deal was MS paying a percentage of revenue, and MS releasing IE for free, so that Spyglass got to keep a percentage of $0?

[Pixie_Dust]

> Feels like when Microsoft licensed Mosaic from Spyglass to become Internet Explorer, and a chunk of the compensation was tied to a fraction of revenue from Internet Explorer. Of course Microsoft gave IE away as part of Windows so IE never had any revenue associated directly with it. Eventually MS did settle a lawsuit brought by Spyglass for $8 million to make the issue go away

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27999293