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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 12:41 PM EDT |
It's true that there isn't proof that there wasn't a conspiracy, but that's not
something that can be proven. Only a conspiracy can be proven. That's why
conspiracy theories are so hard to stamp out.
To a large extent, it may be a rather academic argument, though. Even if there
is no conspiracy, that doesn't mean that things are OK.
Once Stephen Elop trashed the advanced mobile business, it was going to be very
hard to fix it. Trying to do that would require at least one more wrenching
change and would still leave Nokia as a laughingstock in the market. The deals
with Microsoft are already made. At this point, the investors may be thinking
that it's too late to turn back now. They may think the only thing to do anymore
is to hope that this all works out somehow. They may be hoping desperately that
Nokia will be very successful in monetizing the patents, because that's the only
way they could get a decent fraction of their investment back.
SCO was in that boat once they started SCOSource and sued IBM. If SCO had
changed course after that, everyone else would have been much better off, but
not SCO. As a result, as long as SCO had any choice in the matter, they were
going to keep trying to make their idiotic plan work. PIPE fairies could help
SCO keep going longer than they otherwise would have, but there is no reason to
think that they made SCO do what SCO did.
Now it may be that Nokia's investors have decided that they have no choice but
to hope that Elop can make his idiotic plan work because it's too late to turn
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 03:28 PM EDT |
All the signs point to "no." Reportedly, Microsoft gets royalties from
70 percent of Android sales, and Microsoft's stock price has done absolutely
nothing. Put it at 100 percent, and would that change? I just don't see any
benefit to Microsoft shareholders from acquiring Nokia's patents. If Wall Street
is indifferent to MS's patent income now, why would it care if Nokia patents are
added? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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