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LXer 04-17-2013 10:00 AM

LXer: Microsoft scores biggest patent licensee yet: Foxconn
 
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One company—Taiwan's Foxconn—makes a staggering 40 percent of the world's consumer electronic devices. Starting now, Microsoft will be getting paid a toll on a large number of those devices. The company's long patent-licensing campaign has landed its biggest client yet in licensing Foxconn, formally named Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Foxconn has agreed to take a license for any product it produces that runs Google's Android or Chrome operating systems.

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honeybadger 04-17-2013 02:22 PM

What would it take to kill the leech M$?

TobiSGD 04-17-2013 03:15 PM

A time machine.

H_TeXMeX_H 04-18-2013 03:47 AM

Getting rid of software patents would be a first step.

273 04-18-2013 04:36 AM

Sadly people still buy MS software. I know in IT we "use the best tool" but I myself avoid MS at all costs for this reason. I refuse to pay a company to send my money to lawyers to bully open source suppliers and users. Unfortunately that now means not using Android also so it looks like my next phone will have to be a Blackberry.

H_TeXMeX_H 04-18-2013 04:54 AM

Android has massive amounts of malware anyway. I'm not sure why it is considered Linux, just because of the kernel ?

TobiSGD 04-18-2013 05:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H (Post 4933914)
I'm not sure why it is considered Linux, just because of the kernel ?

Of course, why else?

H_TeXMeX_H 04-18-2013 06:15 AM

Maybe Linux should be GNU/Linux like RMS suggests. Android is Proprietary malware apps/Linux.

TobiSGD 04-18-2013 06:26 AM

Linux can only be named GNU/Linux if it actually is GNU/Linux. Android is Android/Linux, like Debian has GNU/kfreebsd or like I have created single purpose OSes that could be named Busybox/Linux. Nonetheless all of them (not Debian GNU/kfreebsd, of course) are Linux systems, regardless if one likes it or not. Just because one distro has a flawed security model doesn't suddenly make it not Linux anymore (otherwise people could argue that Ubuntu/derivatives also can't be called Linux anymore).

H_TeXMeX_H 04-18-2013 06:48 AM

If you refuse to cut the cancer out ...

TobiSGD 04-18-2013 07:07 AM

It is simple as that: malware developers target OSes that have a somewhat large marketshare. If GNU/Linux becomes more popular it will be targeted also and if it becomes more popular it will have the users that don't care to learn about security, so GNU/Linux systems will be infected with malware, too. Do you want to cut that cancer out, also?

H_TeXMeX_H 04-18-2013 08:27 AM

Malware will be an issue only if the distro devs compromise in security to make their distro more popular. There are many examples.

I would at least like a distinction between such distros. It's a matter of philosophy. They adopt a Window$ or proprietary philosophy ... one that harbors malware. That's why I don't like calling it Linux. It takes more than a Linux kernel to make a Linux distro.

TobiSGD 04-18-2013 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H (Post 4934033)
Malware will be an issue only if the distro devs compromise in security to make their distro more popular.

Malware will be an issue as soon as malware developers start to offer their software in DEB or RPM format, most malware out there are trojans and no amount of work distro developers do to secure their product will prevent malware installed by uninformed users. Sadly, most of the computer users are uninformed. Does that make any distro less Linux?
I don't think so, but this is a matter of opinion and since we don't have the same opinions discussing this further doesn't bring us anywhere.

honeybadger 04-18-2013 11:45 AM

I do not understand how a single corporate entity can become so powerful that it takes over the entire market - or atleast shows that it has taken over.
Then there is this anger I feel when I _have_ to pay M$ because I DO NOT use their products.
Either M$ is very good or the laws are asine.


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