Microsoft Hawking R&D Work

Microsoft has started an IP Ventures site, offering licensing opportunities for various research technologies of theirs.  There are some pretty interesting things up there, like WiFi Positioning, Face Detection and Tracking, and yeah, some other stuff.  The price for licensing?  Aha.  Product roylaties or a share in the company.

I'd be surprised if they went through with it, but Microsoft would get a lot of cool points for this if they released all this code as open source.  Even if it was a non-commercial license.

Link to Yahoo! story.