LXer: Microsoft Continues to Use Software Patents to Extort/Blackmail Even More Companies That Use Linux, Forcing/Coercing Them Into Preinst

LXer · 02-10-2016, 09:54 PM

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Acer is the latest large OEM to have become a victim of Microsoft’s witch-hunt against Android/Linux preloaders, whom Microsoft is coercing into becoming Microsoft’s carriers (or face litigation over software patents, with high legal fees if not injunctions or high damages upon secret settlements)

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astrogeek · 02-10-2016, 10:29 PM

When Al Capone and his type did it, they called it criminal shake-downs.

It is still the same thing, but now it is a business model and operates under protection of "the law", which itself has now become the biggest protection racket of all time.