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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 08:14 PM EST |
I understand that many manufacturers pay for a general
portfolio license from Microsoft, despite (obviously) not
using all the patents in the portfolio, or having an
interest in doing so.
Standard operating procedure for Microsoft has allegedly
been to allege nonspecific infringement and demand that
companies pay for a portfolio license to make the issue go
away. It's not necessarily clear which patents are infringed
until it goes to court, and even then they may reserve
others for future cases. Companies often take the expensive
but safe danegeld licensing route to avoid potentially
unlimited litigation going on until Microsoft run out of
their thousands of patents to accuse, or more likely the
accused company runs out of money and settles.
Avoiding exFAT / SD doesn't solve the blackmail issue but
it does get rid of one obvious technology which they could
sue over.
Bear in mind that Microsoft mobile strategy is in tatters
and the only hope they have of making money currently is to
parasitize successful platforms and take a cut whether
justified or not.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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