It Doesn't Take a Genius to See That Microsoft Still Attacks GNU/Linux With Patents to Make Billions of Dollars in 'Protection' Money
'Intellectual Ventures, Finjan, RPX, and other Microsoft-connected trolls cannot be countered by LOT Network and the likes of it (notably OIN); 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' -- source: http://techrights.org/2018/05/14/microsoft-still-attacks-with-patents/ Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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.
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