LXer: Microsoft strategy against Android comes together

LXer · 10-27-2010, 05:40 PM

Published at LXer:

The Microsoft strategy against Android owes less to Ray Ozzie than it does to John Roberts. As I noted at the time, the non-decision in Bilski vs. Kappos gave companies a green light to try and sue innovation out of existence. This nightmare has now come to pass. The problem with software patents, as opposed to those for drugs or medical devices, is that they don’t cover the way you do something, but the idea of doing something.

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Kenny_Strawn · 10-27-2010, 09:18 PM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...tent-law-3091/

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Kenny_Strawn · 12-19-2010, 08:47 AM

Blessed are those that Microsoft wrongfully calls "patent pirates" when they are really the righteous oppressed.

Here's to sum up Microsoft:

Radix
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Avaratia

(The love of money is the root of all evil)

dv502 · 12-19-2010, 10:20 AM

Micro$oft just spreading more FUD to manufactures because the Andriod is the second most selling mobile phone. And when M$ sees something good, as always they get their lawyers and try to find and enforce their alleged patent infringements to make the extra buck.

I like this quote from the article

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In that scenario Windows doesn’t have to be better. It doesn’t even have to be as good. It just needs to be in the ballpark.

Yep, M$ is no good, just like its products. They just want to be everywhere and in everything.

- Cheers