LXer: Ballmer: Android ain't free. Microsoft gets paid.
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On the back of the news that Microsoft (MSFT) is suing Motorola (MOT) for patent infringments related to Android, Steve Ballmer tells the Wall Street Journal that HTC is paying a license fee for its use of Android...and that other Android manufactures may be forced to do the same. Read More... |
Crap like this is why patents are a bad idea.
Microsoft is just mad because Google came out with a great OS that is much better than any version of Windows. Oracle suing Google is the same crap. |
Google needs to step in and put a stop to this. For years, Microsoft has been extorting companies using Linux based on some un-defined set of patents. Right now Google is the only company with pockets deep enough to tell MS where to put their patents.
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Agreed with both of you: M$ and Or₳c£e are both in the wrong and both deserve to die a slow, painful, torturous death at Satan's command.
Or₳c£e, for one, trying to sue Google for using a programming language that was GPL in the first place is (1) a GPL violation and (2) completely evil FOSS conduct. Then, there's M$, who's well-known for their being proponents of software patents -- so long as only they can use them. This is Darwinian and therefore a complete violation of the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts. |
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Just what the hell are you guys talking about, easuter and brianL?
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I'll translate my post for you, Kenny. Thus:
Kenny, your keyboard is malfunctioning again. :) I haven't worked out easuter's post. |
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Makes as much sense as kenny's comment and is just about as pleasant to the eye. So Kenny, what do you think about ¶³đ” [{→j~^½łe ¹eđŋ¶ŋ€????!!!1111 |
The fact that anti-competitive bully M$ gets paid should be investigated as a criminal act of some sort. Even if they are somehow legally entitled to the money due to lobbying/political pressure to allow them to get away with this, buying an android-based phone is better for the general public even if some money does go to M$ evil empire. I hope the new win phone has the same fate as the kin. I think Win7 desktop(which was an improved/efficient Vista) was M$'s last big bang and it's all downhill from there.
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And brianL: Just because I use satiric misspellings of Microsoft's name does NOT mean that my keyboard is malfunctioning!!!!!!! It just means I know just what M$ is doing to the world!!!!!
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Kenny, I think the point they're trying to make is that you're being a bit overzealous with your "satirical misspellings", and it comes off as immature. Really, you don't have to feel compelled to type "Mi¢ro$oft" instead of just "Microsoft", or others. :)
The term "keyboard malfunction" was used jokingly...nobody really thinks you're having hardware problems. :p |
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