14 May
2018
14 May
'18
10:56 p.m.
On Tue, 15 May 2018 08:55:05 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Microsoft continues to shrewdly distribute patents to trolls, offering 'protection' from them (for a fee) and pressuring OEMs to bundle Microsoft 'apps' or risk retaliatory patent lawsuits'
There was this assumption that Microsoft was making a lot of money from Android, precisely through its patent protection racket. Yet Microsoft’s mobile division kept losing huge amounts of money. I was assuming that such royalty income would have been included under that division; yet it seemed far from sufficient to counter the massive failure that was Windows Phone. Experience from elsewhere suggests that patent trolling is typically not a sustainable business model.