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| Authored by: TiddlyPom on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 07:59 AM EDT |
There must be some way of destroying Microsoft's attempts to limit/tax open
source usage through patents.
Is there a definitive list of the patents that Microsoft uses to 'tax' Android
and Linux and could we start a prior art search with the intention of de-fanging
Microsoft's ability to impose costs on open source usage?
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- Short answer: no. - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 01:03 PM EDT
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| Authored by: odysseus on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 10:55 AM EDT |
Nope, it's the software patents which Foxconn has taken out to
"protect" their customers. Surely it's up to the customers to arrange
such matters? And what happens with customers who already have paid MS
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 11:34 AM EDT |
| The whole thing is disgusting. M$ are the biggest bunch of scumbags ever,
and this is yet more of their utterly disgraceful behaviour. A clue is in the
BBC
article: According to the tech consultancy Asymco,
Microsoft is likely to earn several times more money through its Android patents
than it does from licences for its own Windows Phone system. That is
what it is really about, M$ are too inept and incompetent to complete fairly
in the phone market, so they have to harass and bully others with bogus patent
suits until they cave in and pay up. It is basically a protection racket, and I
think there is a law which covers that. RICO?What is really annoying is that
the downstream customers of Foxconn, everywhere in the world, are probably
paying for a bunch of bogus M$ patents that are only valid in the US anyway.
I do hope that the EU is watching closely.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 01:08 PM EDT |
Click Here
”The licensing agreement
with Microsoft represents those efforts and our continued support of
international trade agreements that facilitate implementation of effective
patent protection,” says Samuel Fu, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
(TPE:2317)’s intellectual property director.
Man, this patent
madness must come to an end. It's extortion.
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